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This work explores how African American performers, at the height of Jim Crow, transformed their racial difference into the mass-market commodity known as 'black music'. David Gilbert shows how they used the rhythmic sounds of ragtime, blues, and jazz to construct new representations of black identity, challenging preconceived ideas about race, culture, and modernity.

African American musicians --- Music and race --- Ragtime music --- African Americans --- Afro-American musicians --- Musicians, African American --- Negro musicians --- Musicians --- Rags (Popular music) --- Popular music --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Race and music --- Race --- Social aspects --- History --- History and criticism. --- Music --- New York (N.Y.) --- History and criticism --- New York (State) --- 20th century --- Black people