African American Music

African American Music
Author: Mellonee V. Burnim,Portia K. Maultsby
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781317934424

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American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.

African American Music

African American Music
Author: Earl L. Stewart
Publsiher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: UCSD:31822026264275

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African American Music provides an introduction to all of the richness and diversity of African American musical styles, focusing on the distinct characte4istics and development of each genre. This book is divided into four parts: folk traditions; the jazz aesthetic; black popular styles since 1940; and black theatrical and classical music. Using brief musical examples, the author illustrates and explains the basic concepts that unite all African American styles before discussing each style individually. Among the many types of music explored in individual chapters are spirituals, blues, gospel, ragtime, jazz, pop and classical. Biographical portraits of major musicians and composers, as well as detailed stylistic analyses of each musical genre, make this book not only required reading for any introduction to the field, but a pleasure to read for anyone interested in all of the different styles that comprise African American music. Includes information on Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, bebop, Chuck Berry, blues, boogie woogie, James Brown, call and response, classical music, classic jazz, Sam Cooke, cool jazz, William Levi Dawson, doo wop, Antonin Dvorak, Duke Ellington, free jazz, gospel music, Isaac Hayes, jazz, James Weldon Johnson, Motown Records, Charlie Parker, rags and ragtime, rap music, rhythm and blues, soul music, spirituals, swing, etc. [Publisher description]

Lift Every Voice

Lift Every Voice
Author: Burton William Peretti,Jacqueline M Moore,Nina Mjagkij
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0742558118

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Looks at the history of African American music from its roots in Africa and slavery to the present day and examines its place within African American communities and the nation as a whole.

Issues in African American Music

Issues in African American Music
Author: Portia K. Maultsby,Mellonee V. Burnim
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2016-10-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781315472072

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Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation is a collection of twenty-one essays by leading scholars, surveying vital themes in the history of African American music. Bringing together the viewpoints of ethnomusicologists, historians, and performers, these essays cover topics including the music industry, women and gender, and music as resistance, and explore the stories of music creators and their communities. Revised and expanded to reflect the latest scholarship, with six all-new essays, this book both complements the previously published volume African American Music: An Introduction and stands on its own. Each chapter features a discography of recommended listening for further study. From the antebellum period to the present, and from classical music to hip hop, this wide-ranging volume provides a nuanced introduction for students and anyone seeking to understand the history, social context, and cultural impact of African American music.

Race Music

Race Music
Author: Guthrie P. Ramsey
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2004-11-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520243330

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Covering the vast and various terrain of African American music, this text begins with an account of the author's own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago. It goes on to explore the global influence and social relevance of African American music.

The Music of Black Americans

The Music of Black Americans
Author: Eileen Southern
Publsiher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 602
Release: 1983
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 0393018075

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A narrative history of the music of African-Americans with emphasis on the folk music genres.

The Music in African American Fiction

The Music in African American Fiction
Author: Robert H. Cataliotti
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781317945260

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This is the first comprehensive historical analysis of how black music and musicians have been represented in the fiction of African American writers. It also examines how music and musicians in fiction have exemplified the sensibilities of African Americans and provided paradigms for an African American literary tradition. The fictional representation of African American music by black authors is traced from the nineteenth century (William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, Pauline E. Hopkins, Paul Laurence Dunbar) through the early twentieth century and the Harlem Renaissance (James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston) to the 1940s and 50s (Richard Wright, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison) and the 1960s and the Black Arts Movement (Margaret Walker, William Melvin Kelley, Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Henry Dumas). In the century between Brown and Baraka, the representation of music in black fiction went through a dramatic metamorphosis. Music occupied a representative role in African American culture from which writers drew ideas and inspiration. The music provided a way out of a limited situation by offering a viable option to the strictures of racism. Individuals who overcome these limitations then become role models in the struggle toward equality. African American musical forms-for both artist and audience-also offerd a way of looking at the world, survival, and resistance. The black musician became a ritual leader. This study delineates how black writers have captured the spirit of the music that played such a pivotal role in African American culture. (Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1993; revised with new preface and index)

African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina

African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina
Author: Sarah Bryan,Beverly Bush Patterson,Michelle Lanier
Publsiher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781469610795

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African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina