"Book Review: Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery" by Roberta Freund Schwartz

Great Plains Studies, Center for

 

Date of this Version

2004

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Article

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Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:4 (Fall 2004). Copyright © 2005 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

In recent years a number of books have recognized the contributions of African American musicians to the popular musical landscape and returned to the historical narrative figures of seminal importance. Such a figure is trumpeter Perry George Lowery (1869,1942), nicknamed the "Angel Gabriel's Right Hand Man" by his compatriot, W. C. Handy.

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