Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha by Benedict Taylor - 9780197649343

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's HiawathaAuthor(s): Benedict Taylor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197649343, 978-0197649343\nSynopsis\nThe Hiawatha trilogy of cantatas [tel], based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha, were some of the most popular and widely performed pieces of music in the opening decade of the twentieth century. As a result, their young African British composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor [tel], became widely celebrated in the UK and North America. \nIn this volume, Benedict Taylor examines the musical and political significance of Coleridge-Taylor through the reception history of his Hiawatha trilogy. Coleridge-Taylor's music and efforts on behalf of the African diaspora were made largely from within the white frame in which he grew up and highlight the difficulties of transcultural or interracial mediation at this point in history. Longfellow's source text a.