- Gebundene Ausgabe: 317 Seiten
- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc (16. November 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0195096088
- ISBN-13: 978-0195096088
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,4 x 15,5 x 3,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.157.290 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Philippa Schuyler led an accomplished, complex, and tragic life. She was the first "colored girl" to achieve national prominence at an early age. Growing up in the 1940s and 1950s was difficult for an African American female who not only was the daughter of an interracial union but also a child prodigy, both intellectually and musically. Her father, George Schuyler, a noted black writer, influenced her thinking and political views. Her mother, Josephine Cogdell, daughter of a white, wealthy Texas family, sacrificed her position to marry the infamous Messenger editor, Schuyler. Philippa's musical career, concertizing and composing, lovers, associates, and friends spanned continents. She exerted an influence on the culture of her time and was a role model for children of that era. Her inspiration transcended music--one woman noted that after attending her performance, she decided to become a writer. In her twenties, Philippa became an author of fiction and nonfiction and a roving reporter spending a great deal of time relating events of the Vietnam War. Her untimely death in 1967 marked the tragic end of Philippa's duality: in her careers, music and journalism, and identity, black or white. Lillian Lewis
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"For nearly forty years, Philippa Schuyler has remained fixed in my imagination as the brilliant musical child prodigy I heard so much about in the 1950s. In this thoroughly researched and insightful biography, Kathryn Talalay gives us a picture of Philippa Schuyler as artist, as feminist, as international observer and correspondent, struggling always with racial barriers as well as with issues of her bi-racial identity. As she overcomes these external and internal boundaries, Schuyler seems very much a woman of the 1990s."--Mary Helen Washington
"Philippa Duke Schuyler was one of the most talented, glamorous, and intriguing American women of the century. This brilliantly researched and lucidly written biography reads like a novel as it unwraps the secrets of a life simultaneously dark and lustrous."--Richard Newman, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University
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At 6:35 a.m., on August 2, 1931, a hot and humid Sunday, Philippa Duke Schuyler was born at home, in Harlem. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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As a social historian and african-american writer I enthralled when I read the NY Times Book Review of Kathryn Talalay's bio of phillippa Schuyler. Schuyler made her mark as a musical child prodigy and later, as an adult, a celebrated composer-pianist. Schuyler's life as an international performer in one sense mirrors that of another but more recognized "tragic mulatoo", Dorthy Dandridge. And her last career as a grounbreaking war correspondent in South Vietnam is particularly entriguing. Overall, Talalay's book is marvelous but the high brow and sordid realities of Schuyler's life are especially deserving of a major made-for-cable TV treatment. Similiarly to what recently afforded Dandridge. That way Talalay's thought provoking examination of Schuyler's achievements could be made accessible to a greater number of african-americans and others alike.
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I am very glad I read this book but the story made me very sad for you see, Philippa was my first cousin, once removed. Daniel Calhoun Cogdell, was her grandfather and my great grandfather. I was 30 years old when Philippa died and I would love to have known her. The family never discussed Josephine Cogdell, Philippa's mother, except to say she was eccentric and died young. How sad they missed out on so much and so did I for I did not know she even existed. Yes, very sad indeed.
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I read this book after purchasing it from an Oxford catalog. I'd wanted to buy it since I read the NY Times review. I absolutely loved it. I applaud the scholarship and research of the biographer, but also the humane description of a very complex character. I'd never heard of Phillippa Schuyler, before I read the book review. Although she had many flaws, including her ambiguity about her blackness, she still had a remarkable life and is one of my "sheroes". Her story intrigues me and I want to know more about her father and his writing. Her life ended tragically, but she lived it fully. I am saddened that she so hated her African heritage that she thought the only way she could succeed was to pass herself off as anything but black. I also purchased a copy to send my sister, who is a classical music buff. This is another example of the history of African-Americans being "lost, stolen, or strayed". Every school child should know about Phillippa, as well as the many other gift and talented African-Americans. I am sorry she didn't claim her heritage. I claim her.
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Richard Powers placed Philippa Schuyler (1931-1967) to the center of his novel "The time of our singing". Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Februar 2006 von FrizzText
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Richard Powers stellt Philippa Schuyler (1931-1967) ins Zentrum seines Romans "The time of our singing" - "Der Klang der Zeit". Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Dezember 2005 von FrizzText
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