Thomas L Riis
Biographic Data
| ID | 197050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas L Riis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas L |
| FAMILY NAME | Riis |
| SIGNATURE | RIIS T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Original Blues
Forgotten Manuscripts
Forgotten Manuscripts: A Trip to Coontown Krystyn R. Moon (bio), David Krasner (bio), and Thomas L. Riis (bio) Finding A Trip to Coontown, by Krystyn R. Moon By 1897, most American audiences had had an opportunity to see African Americans perform on the stage during the previous thirty years. Hired by European American agents and managers, they were expected to reproduce many of the songs and skits that had been made famous in blackface minstrels…
Charles Ives, Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4
Demons of Disorder
"The Music and Scripts of "In Dahomey
From the Bowery to Broadway
Before Ziegfeld launched his Follies, before the Shubert brothers built their empire, Lew Fields' productions were the toast of Broadway. For the smart set in the luxury box seats and the shopkeepers and clerks in the gallery, an evening at Weber & Fields' Music Hall was the hottest ticket in town, a chance to see the biggest stars of the era - Lillian Russell, Fay Templeton, David Warfield, DeWolf Hopper, and the Dutch knockabout comedy team of …
Music Matters
Just Before Jazz
Just before Jazz
Just before Jazz
The Experience and Impact of Black Entertainers in England, 1895-1920
In a 1976 collection of essays entitled America, Daniel Walker Howe and several other American historians demonstrated the many facets of a more or less unified Anglo-American worldview in the nineteenth century.' Howe's excellent introductory essay, Victorian Culture in America,' discussed the especially close cultural connections between the countries stemming from their economies and ideologies. The United States and England possessed, he show…
The Music and Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Productions of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is among the most widely known and influential works of American literature. It achieved record sales shortly after its publication in book form in March 1852 by the Boston publisher Jewett and was quickly translated, in hundreds of versions, into at least twenty-one languages, the more exotic of which include Arabic, Welch, Wallachian, and Armenian.1 Its melodramatic qualities, sharply drawn…
"Bob" Cole
Black Musical Theater, 1870-1930
Black musical theater is a little-explored field with far-reaching ramifications in American music history. Over the past century the majority of informal and scholarly writing about black music has focused on contributions to folk music, especially spirituals, and on the creation of jazz. Both repertories possess traits that have made them apt for study. The spirituals reflect a general religiousness that white reformers of the nineteenth and ea…
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Black Musical Theater, 1870-1930
Black musical theater is a little-explored field with far-reaching ramifications in American music history. Over the past century the majority of informal and scholarly writing about black music has focused on contributions to folk music, especially spirituals, and on the creation of jazz. Both repertories possess traits that have made them apt for study. The spirituals reflect a general religiousness that white reformers of the nineteenth and ea…
"Bob" Cole
The Experience and Impact of Black Entertainers in England, 1895-1920
In a 1976 collection of essays entitled America, Daniel Walker Howe and several other American historians demonstrated the many facets of a more or less unified Anglo-American worldview in the nineteenth century.' Howe's excellent introductory essay, Victorian Culture in America,' discussed the especially close cultural connections between the countries stemming from their economies and ideologies. The United States and England possessed, he show…
The Music and Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Productions of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is among the most widely known and influential works of American literature. It achieved record sales shortly after its publication in book form in March 1852 by the Boston publisher Jewett and was quickly translated, in hundreds of versions, into at least twenty-one languages, the more exotic of which include Arabic, Welch, Wallachian, and Armenian.1 Its melodramatic qualities, sharply drawn…
Just before Jazz
Just before Jazz
Music Matters
Just Before Jazz
From the Bowery to Broadway
Before Ziegfeld launched his Follies, before the Shubert brothers built their empire, Lew Fields' productions were the toast of Broadway. For the smart set in the luxury box seats and the shopkeepers and clerks in the gallery, an evening at Weber & Fields' Music Hall was the hottest ticket in town, a chance to see the biggest stars of the era - Lillian Russell, Fay Templeton, David Warfield, DeWolf Hopper, and the Dutch knockabout comedy team of …
"The Music and Scripts of "In Dahomey
Demons of Disorder
Charles Ives, Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4
Forgotten Manuscripts
Forgotten Manuscripts: A Trip to Coontown Krystyn R. Moon (bio), David Krasner (bio), and Thomas L. Riis (bio) Finding A Trip to Coontown, by Krystyn R. Moon By 1897, most American audiences had had an opportunity to see African Americans perform on the stage during the previous thirty years. Hired by European American agents and managers, they were expected to reproduce many of the songs and skits that had been made famous in blackface minstrels…
The Original Blues
Art (14 works) · Visual arts (11 works) · Art history (10 works) · History (10 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (10 works) · Music History and Culture (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (7 works) · Musical (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)