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The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy Volume 12

The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy Volume 12

Adams, Alton Augustus
Clague, Mark
Floyd, Samuel, Jr.

Hardcover

Series: Music of the African Diaspora, Book 12

Music Theory

ISBN10: 0520251318
ISBN13: 9780520251311
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Apr 2 2008
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.49 Depth: 9.11
Language: English
Alton Augustus Adams, Sr., was a musician, writer, hotelier, and the first black bandmaster of the United States Navy. Born in the Virgin Islands in 1889, Adams joined the U.S. military in 1917. Although naval policy at the time restricted blacks to menial jobs, Adams and his all-black ensemble provided a bridge between the local population and their all-white naval administrators. His memoirs, edited by Mark Clague, with a foreword by Samuel Floyd, Jr., reveal an inspired activist who believed music could change the world, mitigate racism, and bring prosperity to his island home.

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