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53 relations: Abbie Mitchell, African Americans, African-American musical theater, Amos 'n' Andy, Ancestry.com, André Charlot, Aubrey Lyles, Benjamin Franklin Keith, Blackface, Broadway theatre, Charles Correll, Charleston (dance), Chicago, Columbia, Tennessee, Eubie Blake, Eubie!, Fats Waller, Film industry, Fisk University, Freeman Gosden, Harlem on the Prairie, Harlem Rides the Range, Harp, Hollywood, I'm Just Wild About Harry, Irvin C. Miller, James P. Johnson, James Reese Europe, Jazz, Lew Leslie, Mantan Moreland, Montgomery, Alabama, Musical theatre, Nashville, Tennessee, New York City, Noble Sissle, Okeh Records, Photokinema, Plagiarism, Professional boxing, Race film, Sandra Seaton, Short film, Shuffle Along, Sound-on-disc, Southern United States, The Bronze Buckaroo, Tim Moore (comedian), Tony Award, Vaudeville, ..., Viking Press, Western (genre), William Bolcom. Expand index (3 more) »
Abbie Mitchell
Abriea "Abbie" Mitchell Cook (25 September 1884 – 16 March 1960), also billed as Abbey Mitchell, was an American soprano opera singer who sang the role of "Clara" in the premier production of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in 1935, and was also the first to record "Summertime" from that musical.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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African-American musical theater
African-American musical theater relates to the historic musical theater of the African American community, particularly prominent in New York City during the first half of the 20th Century.
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Amos 'n' Andy
Amos 'n' Andy is an American radio and television sitcom set in Harlem, Manhattan's historic black community.
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Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.
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André Charlot
André Eugene Maurice Charlot (26 July 1882 – 20 May 1956) was a French impresario known primarily for the highly successful musical revues he staged in London between 1912 and 1937.
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Aubrey Lyles
Aubrey Lee Lyles (8 January 1884 – 28 July 1932), sometimes credited as A. L. Lyles, was an African American vaudeville performer, playwright, songwriter, and lyricist.
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Benjamin Franklin Keith
Benjamin Franklin Keith (January 26, 1846 – March 26, 1914) was an American vaudeville theater owner, highly influential in the evolution of variety theater into vaudeville.
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Blackface
Blackface was and is a form of theatrical make-up used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a caricature of a black person.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.
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Charles Correll
Charles James Correll (February 2, 1890 – September 26, 1972) was an American radio comedian, known best for his work for the radio series Amos 'n' Andy with Freeman Gosden.
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Charleston (dance)
The Charleston is a dance named for the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Columbia, Tennessee
Columbia is a city in and the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee, United States.
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Eubie Blake
James Hubert Blake (February 7, 1887February 12, 1983), known as Eubie Blake, was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music.
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Eubie!
Eubie! Is a revue featuring the music of jazz/swing composer Eubie Blake, with lyrics by Noble Sissle, Andy Razaf, Johnny Brandon, F. E. Miller, and Jim Europe.
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Fats Waller
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.
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Film industry
The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution; and actors, film directors, and other film crew personnel.
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Fisk University
Fisk University is a private historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Freeman Gosden
Freeman Fisher "Gozzie" Gosden (May 5, 1899 – December 10, 1982) was an American radio comedian and pioneer in the development of the situation comedy form.
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Harlem on the Prairie
Harlem on the Prairie (1937) is a race movie, billed as the first "all-colored" western musical.
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Harlem Rides the Range
Harlem Rides the Range is a 1939 American black cowboy film directed by Richard C. Kahn.
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Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
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I'm Just Wild About Harry
"I'm Just Wild About Harry" is a song written in 1921 with lyrics by Noble Sissle and music by Eubie Blake for the Broadway show Shuffle Along.
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Irvin C. Miller
Irvin Colloden Miller (February 19, 1884 – February 27, 1975) was an African-American actor, playwright and vaudeville show writer and producer.
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James P. Johnson
James Price Johnson (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer.
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James Reese Europe
James Reese Europe (February 22, 1880 – May 9, 1919), sometimes known as Jim Europe, was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Lew Leslie
Lew Leslie (April 15, 1888 or 1890 – March 10, 1963) was a Broadway writer and producer.
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Mantan Moreland
Mantan Moreland (September 3, 1902 – September 28, 1973) was an American actor and comedian most popular in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County.
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Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Noble Sissle
Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an African-American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921), and its hit song I'm Just Wild About Harry.
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Okeh Records
Okeh Records is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918.
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Photokinema
Photo-Kinema (some sources say Phono-Kinema) was a sound-on-disc system for motion pictures invented by Orlando Kellum.
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.
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Professional boxing
Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is a regulated, sanctioned boxing.
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Race film
The race film or race movie was a film type produced entirely in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for an all-black audience, featuring black casts.
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Sandra Seaton
Sandra Cecelia Seaton is an American playwright and librettist.
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Short film
A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.
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Shuffle Along
Shuffle Along is a musical with music and lyrics by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, and a thin revue-style connecting plot about a mayoral race, written by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles.
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Sound-on-disc
Sound-on-disc is a class of sound film processes using a phonograph or other disc to record or play back sound in sync with a motion picture.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.
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The Bronze Buckaroo
The Bronze Buckaroo is a 1939 American film directed by Richard C. Kahn.
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Tim Moore (comedian)
Tim Moore (December 9, 1887 – December 13, 1958) was an American vaudevillian and comic actor of the first half of the 20th century.
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Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.
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Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.
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Viking Press
Viking Press is an American publishing company now owned by Penguin Random House.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.
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William Bolcom
William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist.
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