The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Photo: Courtesy Paul Ressler Collection
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The International Sweethearts of Rhythm Photo: Courtesy Paul Ressler Collection |
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These young musicians helped popularize swing music while serving as ambassadors for black schools and colleges. Swingtime tells the story of three of these bands: the Bama State Collegians, Prairie View Co-Eds, and International Sweethearts of Rhythm. Audio
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Dr. Kenneth R. Janken is a professor of Afro-American Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He focuses on 20th century African-American History and is the author of Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African American Intellectual (1993) and White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP (2003). His published articles include works on the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights movement of the 1940s.
Dr. Kip Lornell Dr. Sherrie Tucker Dr. Kenneth Janken Clora Bryant Izola Fedford Collins Ernest Mae Crafton Miller Rosalind Cron Helen Cole Evelyn McGhee Stone
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Stewart is Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at Alabama
State University and a professional actress. She is perhaps best known
for her recurring role in “In the Heat of the Night.” She
earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for her role in the film adaptation
of John Grisham’s A Time to Kill and received the New York
Festival’s Gold Worldmedal
for her narration on the PRI series “Remembering Slavery.”
Dr.
Sherrie Tucker is the author of Swing Shift: “All-Girl”
Bands of the 1940s (Duke University Press, 2000). An assistant
professor in the Kansas University department of American Studies, Tucker
has written for The Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology, The
Black Music Research Journal, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,
and American Music. She is the recipient of the Emily Toth
Award for 2001 from the Women’s Caucus of the American Culture
Association. She created the “Women in Jazz” section of
the “Ken Burns’ Jazz” website.
Dr.
Kip Lornell, a professor of African Studies, Music and American
Studies at George Washington University, is a research associate at the
Smithsonian Institution. He is the author of Happy in the Service
of the Lord: African American Sacred Harmony Quartets, among other
works. He consults frequently on public radio projects.