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Author : Gerhard Kubik
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781604737288
A narrative that explores the African genealogy of American Blues
Author : Gerhard Kubik
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781628467208
In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through connections like these Kubik realized that the link between these two far-flung musicians is African-American music, the sound that became the blues. Such discoveries reveal a narrative of music evolution for Kubik, a cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. Traveling in Africa, Brazil, Venezuela, and the United States, he spent forty years in the field gathering the material for Africa and the Blues. In this book, Kubik relentlessly traces the remote genealogies of African cultural music through eighteen African nations, especially in the Western and Central Sudanic Belt. Included is a comprehensive map of this cradle of the blues, along with 31 photographs gathered in his fieldwork. The author also adds clear musical notations and descriptions of both African and African American traditions and practices and calls into question the many assumptions about which elements of the blues were "European" in origin and about which came from Africa. Unique to this book is Kubik's insight into the ways present-day African musicians have adopted and enlivened the blues with their own traditions. With scholarly care but with an ease for the general reader, Kubik proposes an entirely new theory on blue notes and their origins. Tracing what musical traits came from Africa and what mutations and mergers occurred in the Americas, he shows that the African American tradition we call the blues is truly a musical phenomenon belonging to the African cultural world.
Author : Gwen Ansell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 0826417531
Tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American styles of music. Ansell illustrates how jazz occupies a unique place in South African music.Through interviews with hundreds of musicians, she pieces together a vibrant narrative history, bringing to life the early politics of resistance, the atmosphere of illegal performance spaces, the global anti-apartheid influence of Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, as well as the post-apartheid upheavals in the national broadcasting and recording industries.
Author : Samuel Charters
Publisher : Boston : M. Boyars
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:39000005713933
Discusses African folk music and its relationship with American blues.
Author : Anna Badkhen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780698410848
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed. The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere. For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish used to be so plentiful a man could dip his hand into the grey-green ocean and pull one out as big as his thigh. But in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing and climate change, the fish are harder and harder to find. Here, Badkhen discovers, all boundaries are permeable--between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and story. Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a time of unprecedented environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval with resilience, ingenuity, and wonder.
Author : Lieve Joris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132120093
Travelling through Senegal, Mauritania and Mali, the author sees the inhabitants coping with the hardships and instability that drought, ethnic conflict and rebel uprisings bring. This book also embraces the survival spirit of the people, centring around the Malinese blues singer Boubacar Traore.
Author : Steve Gordon
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Jazz
ISBN : 0864862423
Basil Breakey photographed and befriended these township jazz musicians, and so built up a significant historical record. Here are Kippie Moeketsi, Dollar Brand ( Abdullah Ibrahim), Chris MacGregor, Basil Coetzee, Barney Rachabane, and others.
Author : Jeffrey Melnick
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674040908
All too often an incident or accident, such as the eruption in Crown Heights with its legacy of bitterness and recrimination, thrusts Black-Jewish relations into the news. A volley of discussion follows, but little in the way of progress or enlightenment results--and this is how things will remain until we radically revise the way we think about the complex interactions between African Americans and Jews. A Right to Sing the Blues offers just such a revision. Black-Jewish relations, Jeffrey Melnick argues, has mostly been a way for American Jews to talk about their ambivalent racial status, a narrative collectively constructed at critical moments, when particular conflicts demand an explanation. Remarkably flexible, this narrative can organize diffuse materials into a coherent story that has a powerful hold on our imagination. Melnick elaborates this idea through an in-depth look at Jewish songwriters, composers, and perfomers who made Black music in the first few decades of this century. He shows how Jews such as George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, and others were able to portray their natural affinity for producing Black music as a product of their Jewishness while simultaneously depicting Jewishness as a stable white identity. Melnick also contends that this cultural activity competed directly with Harlem Renaissance attempts to define Blackness. Moving beyond the narrow focus of advocacy group politics, this book complicates and enriches our understanding of the cultural terrain shared by African Americans and Jews.
Author : Jacqui Malone
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0252065085
Former dancer Jacqui Malone throws a fresh spotlight on the cultural history of black dance, the Africanisms that have influenced it, and the significant role that vocal harmony groups, black college and university marching bands, and black sorority and fraternity stepping teams have played in the evolution of dance in African American life.
Author : Gerhard Kubik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226456911
Vol. 1 previously published in 1994 by F. Noetzel.
Author : Neil A. Wynn
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781604735475
Contributions from Christopher G. Bakriges, Sean Creighton, Jeffrey Green, Leighton Grist, Bob Groom, Rainer E. Lotz, Paul Oliver, Catherine Parsonage, Iris Schmeisser, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Robert Springer, Rupert Till, Guido van Rijn, David Webster, Jen Wilson, and Neil A. Wynn This unique collection of essays examines the flow of African American music and musicians across the Atlantic to Europe from the time of slavery to the twentieth century. In a sweeping examination of different musical forms--spirituals, blues, jazz, skiffle, and orchestral music--the contributors consider the reception and influence of black music on a number of different European audiences, particularly in Britain, but also France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The essayists approach the subject through diverse historical, musicological, and philosophical perspectives. A number of essays document little-known performances and recordings of African American musicians in Europe. Several pieces, including one by Paul Oliver, focus on the appeal of the blues to British listeners. At the same time, these considerations often reveal the ambiguous nature of European responses to black music and in so doing add to our knowledge of transatlantic race relations.
Author : Fred de Vries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1776096002
Starting with an exploration of blues music, Fred de Vries seeks to understand white fear and black anger in the American Deep South and South Africa.
Author : Ingrid Tolia Monson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Black people
ISBN : 9780415967693
The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music.
Author : Paul Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:39000005898882
Author : Edward M. Komara
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Blues
ISBN : 9780415926997
This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the Blues website.