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Noble Sissle
Noble Sissle Sissle's most significant contribution to American music and theater was his role in bringing the musical Shuffle Along to Broadway—and to lasting fame.

Noble Sissle

American musician
Also known as: Noble Lee Sissle
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Robert Kimball
Writer and historian, New York City. Coauthor of Reminiscing With Sissle and Blake (1973) and The Gershwins (1973). Editor of The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin (1993) and other...
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Noble Sissle (born July 10, 1889, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.—died December 17, 1975, Tampa, Florida) was an American lyricist, vocalist, and bandleader who is best known today for his work with pianist and composer Eubie Blake. Sissle and Blake cocreated Shuffle Along, the 1921 musical comedy that broke from the caricatured imagery of blackface minstrelsy to restore authentic Black artistry to the American stage. The production was a landmark of the Harlem Renaissance. Sissel also became,...

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