Blind Boone :

Harrah, Madge.

Blind Boone : piano prodigy / Madge Harrah. - Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c2004. - 120 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Trailblazer biography. . - Trailblazer biography. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-117) and index.

Growing up blind -- Adventures in Saint Louis -- Kidnapped! -- New horizons -- The challenge -- The early years -- A concert career -- Ragtime and Jim Crow -- The final years.

Presents the life and career of the blind pianist who toured the country after the Civil War, bringing ragtime and other African American music to the concert stage.

1575050579 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 9781575050577 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

2002153294


Boone, Blind, 1864-1927 --Juvenile literature.


Blind musicians--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American musicians--Biography--Juvenile literature.


Biographie.

ML3930.B597 / H37 2004

781.64/56/092 B