The Negro in Music and Drama

Author/Contributor(s):	Jennings, La Vinia Delois
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	10/09/2026
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Occupying a seminal position in opera and musical theatre, Harry Lawrence Freeman (1869-1954) stands at the vanguard of black operatic music history. One of the earliest American classical composers to infuse scores with jazz, blues, and spirituals, he inaugurated a black libretto movement that reverberates in musical culture today.