Vernon Loggins Books

Louis Gottschalk (1829-1869) was the first American pianist and composer to win international fame. His creative use of the colorful and exotic musical idioms of his native New Orleans foreshadowed by some fifty years the appearance of these same influences in early jazz.

Looks at authorship on the part of black Americans from the mid-17th century until 1900. Studies biography, poetry, writings of anti-slave agents, and fiction.