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Afro-blue

Tony Bolden
Afro blue Book PDF

Author : Tony Bolden
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0252028740

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In Afro-Blue, Tony Bolden traces the ways innovations in black music and poetry have driven the evolution of a variety of other American vernacular artistic forms. The blues tradition, Bolden demonstrates, plays a key role in the relationship between poetry and vernacular expressive forms. Through an analysis of the formal qualities of black poetry and music, Afro-Blue shows that they function as a form of resistance, affirming the values and style of life that oppose bourgeois morality. Even before the term blues had cultural currency, the inscriptions of style and resistance embodied in the blues tradition were already a prominent feature of black poetics. Bolden delineates this interrelation, examining how poets extend and reshape a variety of other verbal folk forms in the same way as blues musicians play with other musical genres. He identifies three distinct bodies of blues poetics: some poets mimic and riff on oral forms, another group fuse their dedication to vernacular culture with a concern for literary conventions, while still others opt to embody the blues poetics by becoming blues musicians - and some combine elements of all three.

The Afro-Blues Tradition

Kwame Copeland
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Author : Kwame Copeland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780595394104

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The Afro-Blues Tradition by Kwame Copeland Pdf

"The Blues was born from praise songs, poetry, metaphorical tales, and folk traditions of the Africans, as they became Americana's. The Afro-Blues sprouted up wherever the African landed in this hemisphere. The tradition mixed with existing cultures but retained its uniqueness. Part of its uniqueness was its use of percussive tones and its use of mythological references in its idiom and artistic rituals. As a historical tradition, it was so receptive and creative, that its classical roots evolved into the 21st Century. At this time of moral and spiritual crises, I fall back on my inheritance, where meditative prose and poetry, are used to reflect the moment from emotive reasoning. John Coltrane and Mongo Santamaria both claimed the song Afro-Blue. Yet! This song reflects where the tradition had traveled, since Coltrane was an African American and Santamaria was an African Cuban. This great stream of maternal traditions has given much to the world, and in these times of great transition; its glorious well should be dipped in more often. If just to argument this present debate-What is Human!"

John Coltrane Plays "Coltrane Changes" (Songbook)

John Coltrane,Masaya Yamaguchi
John Coltrane Plays Coltrane Changes Songbook Book PDF

Author : John Coltrane,Masaya Yamaguchi
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476885858

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John Coltrane Plays "Coltrane Changes" (Songbook) by John Coltrane,Masaya Yamaguchi Pdf

(Artist Transcriptions). In the late 1950s, John Coltrane composed or arranged a series of tunes that used chord progressions based on a series of key center movements by thirds, rather than the usual fourths and fifths of standard progressions. This sound is so aurally identifiable and has received so much attention from jazz musicians that it has become known as "Coltrane's Changes." This book presents an exploration of his changes by studying 13 of his arrangements, each containing Coltrane's unique harmonic formula. It includes complete solo transcriptions with extensive performance notes for each. Titles include: Body and Soul * But Not for Me * Central Park West * Countdown * Fifth House * Giant Steps * Summertime * and more.

“Afro Blues from Heaven”

Paul Manning Jr.
Afro Blues from Heaven Book PDF

Author : Paul Manning Jr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9798369408162

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Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't

Scott Saul
Freedom Is Freedom Ain t Book PDF

Author : Scott Saul
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674043107

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In the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz--and American--history.

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies

George E. Lewis,Benjamin Piekut
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies Book PDF

Author : George E. Lewis,Benjamin Piekut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199892938

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Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from more than sixty scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies

George Lewis,Benjamin Piekut
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies Book PDF

Author : George Lewis,Benjamin Piekut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199892921

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V. 1. Cognitions -- v. 2. Critical theories

Stay Black and Die

I. Augustus Durham
Stay Black and Die Book PDF

Author : I. Augustus Durham
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478027652

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In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black mother as both a lost object and a found subject often obscured when constituting a cultural legacy of genius across history. He analyzes the works of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Marvin Gaye, Octavia E. Butler, and Kendrick Lamar to show how black cultural practices and aesthetics abstract and reveal the lost mother through performance. Whether attributing Douglass’s intellect to his matrilineage, reading Gaye’s falsetto singing voice as a move to interpolate black female vocality, or examining the women in Ellison’s life who encouraged his aesthetic interests, Durham demonstrates that melancholy becomes the catalyst for genius and genius in turn is a signifier of the maternal. Using psychoanalysis to develop a theory of racial melancholy while “playing” with affect theory to investigate racial aesthetics, Durham theorizes the role of the feminine, especially the black maternal, in the production of black masculinist genius.

Black, Blue & Gray

James Haskins
Black Blue Gray Book PDF

Author : James Haskins
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : African American soldiers
ISBN : UOM:49015002465962

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Black, Blue & Gray by James Haskins Pdf

An historical account of the role of African-American soldiers in the Civil War.

John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom

Leonard Brown
John Coltrane and Black America s Quest for Freedom Book PDF

Author : Leonard Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199779740

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John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom by Leonard Brown Pdf

Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration of Coltrane's sound and its spiritual qualities that are rooted in Black American music-culture and aspirations for freedom. A wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews featuring many of the most eminent figures in Black American music and jazz studies and performance --Tommy Lee Lott, Anthony Brown, Herman Gray, Emmett G. Price III, Tammy Kernodle, Salim Washington, Eric Jackson, TJ Anderson ,Yusef Lateef, Billy Taylor, Olly Wilson, George Russell, and a never before published interview with Elvin Jones -- the book examines the full spectrum of Coltrane's legacy. Each work approaches this theme from a different angle, in both historical and contemporary contexts, focusing on how Coltrane became a quintessential example of the universal and enduring qualities of Black American culture.

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide

Nathan Brackett,Christian David Hoard
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Book PDF

Author : Nathan Brackett,Christian David Hoard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : POPULAR MUSIC--DISCOGRAPHY.
ISBN : 9780743201698

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Cal Tjader

S. Duncan Reid
Cal Tjader Book PDF

Author : S. Duncan Reid
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476671345

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Cal Tjader by S. Duncan Reid Pdf

Within one of the most complex musical categories yet to surface, Cal Tjader quietly pioneered the genre as a jazz vibraphonist, composer, arranger and bandleader from the 1950s through the 1980s. Reid tells the life story of a humble musician, written in a familiar, conversational tone that reveals Tjader's complex charisma. Tjader left behind a legacy and a labyrinth of influence, attested by his large audience and innovation that would change the course of jazz. Expanded and revised, this intimate biography now includes additional interviews and anecdotes from Tjader's family, bandmates, and community, print research, and rare photographs, presenting a full history of an undervalued musician, as well as a detailed account of the progression of Latin Jazz.

The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature

Paula von Gleich
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Author : Paula von Gleich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110761030

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The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature by Paula von Gleich Pdf

This book tests the limits of fugitivity as a concept in recent Black feminist and Afro-pessimist thought. It follows the conceptual travels of confinement and flight through three major Black writing traditions in North America from the 1840s to the early 21st century. Cultural analysis is the basic methodological approach and recent concepts of captivity and fugitivity in Afro-pessimist and Black feminist theory form the theoretical framework.

Soundtrack to a Movement

Richard Brent Turner
Soundtrack to a Movement Book PDF

Author : Richard Brent Turner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479800360

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**FINALIST for the 2022 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts** **Certificate of Merit, Best Historical Research on Recorded Jazz, given by the 2022 Association for Recorded Sounds Collection Awards for Excellence in Historical Sound Research** Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation Amid the social change and liberation of the civil rights and Black Power movements, the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded a tribute to Malcolm X’s emancipatory political consciousness. Shepp saw similarities between his revolutionary hero and John Coltrane, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the era. Later, the esteemed trumpeter Miles Davis echoed Shepp’s sentiment, recognizing that Coltrane’s music represented the very passion, rage, rebellion, and love that Malcolm X preached. Soundtrack to a Movement examines the link between the revolutionary Black Islam of the post-WWII generation and jazz music. It argues that from the late 1940s and ’50s though the 1970s, Islam rose in prominence among African Americans in part because of the embrace of the religion among jazz musicians. The book demonstrates that the values that Islam and jazz shared—Black affirmation, freedom, and self-determination—were key to the growth of African American Islamic communities, and that it was jazz musicians who led the way in shaping encounters with Islam as they developed a Black Atlantic “cool” that shaped both Black religion and jazz styles. Soundtrack to a Movement demonstrates how by expressing their values through the rejection of systemic racism, the construction of Black notions of masculinity and femininity, and the development of an African American religious internationalism, both jazz musicians and Black Muslims engaged with a global Black consciousness and interconnected resistance movements in the African diaspora and Africa.

Jazz Arranging and Performance Practice

Paul E. Rinzler
Jazz Arranging and Performance Practice Book PDF

Author : Paul E. Rinzler
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461659990

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Jazz Arranging and Performance Practice by Paul E. Rinzler Pdf

Deals with the real substance of arranging for small jazz ensembles, in addition to the rudiments.