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Weldon and Rosamond Johnson Sheet Music, An Illustrated Bibliography

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Just Out – A New Bibliography by Danny Crew Weldon and Rosamond Johnson Sheet Music: An Illustrated Catalogue of Sheet Music Covers fromo 1807 to Present The 200-page catalogue features over 700 color photos of sheet music, song sheets, and song books associated with the amazing Johnson brothers. Also included is a section featuring a preliminary listing of associated 78 rpm recordings and a listing of titles that were unlocated. There ia also a Title Index. 8 1/2″ x 11″. Weldon and Rosamond Johnson, born in Jacksonville, Florida, in the 1870s, we two of the most important Black composers of the 20th century. Principally known today for their composition “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (also known as the Black National Anthem), however, it is but a small piece of lives of two of the most amazing American stories that you never heard of: Broadway composers and performers, founded the first Black High School in Florida, foreign diplomat for TR and William Taft; co-founders of ASCAP; first Black president of the NAACP; first Black conductor of an all white orchestra with an all white cast on Broadway, arranger for Roy Rogers … and much more. These guys were the real thing, not just a media personality. $39.99 including postage Sheet Music; African-American Composers, Catalog, Politician, song book, song sheet,

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