Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody
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Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody is a 1927 jazz-influenced orchestral work that blends blues, spirituals, and classical elements to depict African American life in the Yamekraw neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10439524 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody Context triple: [James P. Johnson, composed, Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody]
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A.
Harlem's Nocturne
"Harlem's Nocturne" is the atmospheric, piano-driven opening track by Alicia Keys that sets a soulful, introspective tone for her album "The Diary of Alicia Keys."
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B.
Harlem Nocturne
"Harlem Nocturne" is a moody, jazz standard saxophone feature composed in 1939 that has become widely associated with film noir and late-night urban atmospheres.
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C.
Harlem Shadows
Harlem Shadows is a landmark 1922 poetry collection by Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay that explores Black urban life, racial injustice, and modernist themes.
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D.
Twelfth Street Rag
"Twelfth Street Rag" is a classic early jazz and ragtime composition that became a popular standard, widely recorded and performed by many artists across the 20th century.
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E.
Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro
"Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro" is a 1932 opera by Shirley Graham Du Bois that dramatizes African and African American history and culture through a fusion of classical, spiritual, jazz, and African musical forms.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody Target entity description: Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody is a 1927 jazz-influenced orchestral work that blends blues, spirituals, and classical elements to depict African American life in the Yamekraw neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia.
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A.
Harlem's Nocturne
"Harlem's Nocturne" is the atmospheric, piano-driven opening track by Alicia Keys that sets a soulful, introspective tone for her album "The Diary of Alicia Keys."
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B.
Harlem Nocturne
"Harlem Nocturne" is a moody, jazz standard saxophone feature composed in 1939 that has become widely associated with film noir and late-night urban atmospheres.
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C.
Harlem Shadows
Harlem Shadows is a landmark 1922 poetry collection by Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay that explores Black urban life, racial injustice, and modernist themes.
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D.
Twelfth Street Rag
"Twelfth Street Rag" is a classic early jazz and ragtime composition that became a popular standard, widely recorded and performed by many artists across the 20th century.
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E.
Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro
"Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro" is a 1932 opera by Shirley Graham Du Bois that dramatizes African and African American history and culture through a fusion of classical, spiritual, jazz, and African musical forms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz-influenced composition
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orchestral work ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | Yamekraw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Yamekraw neighborhood in Savannah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | James P. Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compositionYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creatorEthnicity | African American ⓘ |
| depicts |
African American life
ⓘ
Yamekraw neighborhood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs | Negro rhapsody ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceMedium | concert hall ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
classical music ⓘ orchestral jazz ⓘ program music ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
African American music history
ⓘ
early symphonic jazz ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation | piano and orchestra ⓘ |
| hasPart |
orchestral sections
ⓘ
piano solo passages ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
call-and-response textures
ⓘ
stride piano elements ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
African American spirituals
ⓘ
European classical music ⓘ blues tradition ⓘ |
| intendedTo | depict daily life in a Black community ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| movement | Harlem Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early large-scale orchestral jazz form
ⓘ
integration of blues and spirituals into symphonic idiom ⓘ |
| period | Harlem Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereCity | New York City ⓘ |
| premiereCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1928 ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Carnegie Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premierePerformer |
James P. Johnson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
orchestra ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Rhapsody in Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Savannah, Georgia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yamekraw neighborhood of Savannah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | single-movement rhapsody ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Yamekraw (1930 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
blues expression
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religious feeling ⓘ urban African American experience ⓘ |
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Subject: Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody Description of subject: Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody is a 1927 jazz-influenced orchestral work that blends blues, spirituals, and classical elements to depict African American life in the Yamekraw neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia.
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