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The Music of Black Americans
Author | : Eileen Southern |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0393038432 |
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Beginning with the arrival of the first Africans in the English colonies, Eileen Southern weaves a fascinating narrative of intense musical activity. As singers, players, and composers, black American musicians are fully chronicled in this landmark book. Now in the third edition, the author has brought the entire text up to date and has added a wealth of new material covering the latest developments in gospel, blues, jazz, classical, crossover, Broadway, and rap as they relate to African American music.
The Music of Black Americans
Author | : Eileen Southern |
Publsiher | : New York : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 0393098990 |
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A new edition of the classic text on African American music.
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.
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]
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.
California Soul
Author | : Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje,Eddie S. Meadows |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1998-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520206282 |
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"Documented with great care and affection, this book is filled with revelations about the intermingling of peoples, styles of music, business interests, night-life pleasures, and the strange ways lived experience shaped black music as America's music in California." —Charles Keil, co-author of Music Grooves
Readings in Black American Music
Author | : Eileen Southern |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0393952800 |
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Second Edition: In this companion volume to The Music of Black America, Eileen Southern draws on letters, journals, memoirs, ledgers, books, articles, and even slave advertisements in newspapers to illuminate the story told in that historical survey, now in it Third Edition. The collection includes documents dating from early America through the twentieth century.