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(VOICE TRAINING.) HACKLEY, E. AZALIA. A Guide in Voice Culture. 15 pages, with musical examples throughout the text; a couple of pages with small close tears from careless opening; Large 4to, original printed stiff brown wrappers. Ownership signature of Lillian Cobbs on the title page. Philadelphia: for the author, circa 1900
a rare book from a self-styled "race musical missionary." Emma Azalia Hackley (1867-1922) was an African-American woman, who, during a time of cultural ``little dark age'' sought to bring a renaissance of culture and education to former slaves and their children. Born in Tennessee and raised in Detroit, Hackley took pains to educate African-Americans in classical culture, in order to uplift them, especially the poor, in both the North and post-Reconstruction South.
