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[SOVIET SHEET MUSIC DESIGN: NATIVE AMERICANS] The Mississippi Song

Nossowker, J.

Item #2111

Leningrad: Izdanie avtora, [1920s]. 4 pp.: music score. 36x27,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of edges, corners chipped, some pale water stains, two Leningrad and Tbilisi bookstore stamps on back cover, otherwise good. One of 1000 copies.

An early Soviet sheet music brochure with an excellent cover design. It is a part of an international song repertoire published in the 1920s. In that decade, all music genres were issued, including officially forbidden foreign dance music and national motifs of different ethnic groups. This particular brochure introduced music from far America. The avant-garde design was created in red and black inks. Painting the skin of a couple in red, the artist didn’t color their clothes and showed the difference between them in textile ornaments.
Since the early years, the USSR positioned itself as the state with a friendly attitude towards all ethnic groups repressed in the bourgeois world, including African-Americans and Native Americans. However, sheet music designs featuring their images were not common.

Worldcat shows copies located in Princeton and Columbia Universities.

Price: $550.00