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Jeffrey Noonan
American Music, Volume 31, Number 3, Fall 2013, pp. 373-374 (Review)
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came a particularly advantageous move for Europe and other bands in outdoor settings
where pianos could not be used or in affluent white homes where African Americans were
not allowed to touch pianos. White audiences enjoyed thoroughly the sheer novelty of the
effect. In fact, Black Manhattan features on its cover a publicity photograph from 1916 of
Europe leading his orchestra with several banjos placed in the foreground.
7. Music by Will Marion Cook, lyrics by Jesse Shipp, book by Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
and starring the comedic team of Bert Williams and George Walker; Thomas L. Riis, ed.,
The Music and Scripts of In Dahomey (Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 1996).