Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 456

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
NO COPIES LOCATED (MUSIC.) LOVINGGOOD, PENMAN. Famous Negro Musicians. 67 pages. Small 8vo, original leather textured stiff cardstock wrappers with printed cover label; light overall wear, sewn; rear cover with small pieces of the rear blank adhered from drops of binding glue. inscribed and signed by the author on the front free end-paper. Brooklyn: Press Forum Co, 1921
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presentation copy of the first edition, re-printed in 1978. oclc locates no copies at all of this first edition. Penman Lovinggood, author, tenor and composer was born in Texas in 1895. Eileen Southern, in her Introduction to the 1978 reprint, notes that this was "The first survey of black music since the epochal publication of James Monroe Trotter's "'Music and Some Highly Musical People' in 1878." There was no other such study until Maude Cuney Hare's Negro Musicians and Their Music in 1934. Lovinggood provides biographical sketches of 20 musicians, many of them hardly known today, such as composer Carl R Diton, sopranos, Cleota J. Collins, Florence Cole Talbot, and Joseph H. Douglass, grandson of Frederick Douglass, a fine violinist. Prints what is very likely to be the first mentions of then twenty-four year old contralto Marian Anderson in a book. RARE.