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African American Music

Earl L. Stewart
African American Music Book PDF

Author : Earl L. Stewart
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : 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]

Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020

Anonim
Music in Black American Life 1945 2020 Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0252044584

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This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and African American Music in Global Perspective. In this collection, a group of predominately Black scholars explores a variety of topics with works that pioneered new methodologies and modes of inquiry for hearing and studying Black music. These extracts and articles examine the World War II jazz scene; look at female artists like gospel star Shirley Caesar and jazz musician-arranger Melba Liston; illuminate the South Bronx milieu that folded many forms of black expressive culture into rap; and explain Hamilton's massive success as part of the "tanning" of American culture that began when Black music entered the mainstream. Part sourcebook and part survey of historic music scholarship, Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 collects groundbreaking work that redefines our view of Black music and its place in American music history. Contributors: Nelson George, Wayne Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, Eileen M. Hayes, Loren Kajikawa, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tammy L. Kernodle, Cheryl L. Keyes, Gwendolyn Pough, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mark Tucker, and Sherrie Tucker

Black American Music

Hildred Roach
Black American Music Book PDF

Author : Hildred Roach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0894648705

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This text introduces the various types of Pan-African music, from Africa to the Americas. With an emphasis upon the African American composer, this survey uses musical examples and illustrations to pinpoint influences, the slave era, the emergence of the black professional, and contemporary trends.

African American Music

Mellonee V. Burnim,Portia K. Maultsby
African American Music Book PDF

Author : Mellonee V. Burnim,Portia K. Maultsby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : 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.

Lift Every Voice

Burton William Peretti,Jacqueline M Moore,Nina Mjagkij
Lift Every Voice Book PDF

Author : Burton William Peretti,Jacqueline M Moore,Nina Mjagkij
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0742558118

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Lift Every Voice by Burton William Peretti,Jacqueline M Moore,Nina Mjagkij Pdf

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

Portia K. Maultsby,Mellonee V. Burnim
Issues in African American Music Book PDF

Author : Portia K. Maultsby,Mellonee V. Burnim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315472089

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Issues in African American Music by Portia K. Maultsby,Mellonee V. Burnim Pdf

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

Guthrie P. Ramsey
Race Music Book PDF

Author : Guthrie P. Ramsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-22
Category : 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

Eileen Southern
The Music of Black Americans Book PDF

Author : Eileen Southern
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0393018075

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The Music of Black Americans by Eileen Southern Pdf

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

African American Music

Mellonee V. Burnim,Portia K. Maultsby
African American Music Book PDF

Author : Mellonee V. Burnim,Portia K. Maultsby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317934431

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African American Music by Mellonee V. Burnim,Portia K. Maultsby Pdf

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.

Black American Music

Hildred Roach
Black American Music Book PDF

Author : Hildred Roach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001869358

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Black American Music by Hildred Roach Pdf

Revised and expanded, this important text is designed to introduce the beginning scholar to various types of Pan-African music, from Africa to the Americas. With an emphasis upon the African American composer, this survey uses musical examples and illustrations to pinpoint beginning influences, the slave era, the emergence of the black professional, and contemporary trends. Discussions center upon classical and popular forms, and offer the music of William Grant Still alongside that of such jazz personalities as Edward (Duke) Ellington, Ferdinand (Jelly Roll) Morton, rap artist M. C. Hammer, and rock star Michael Jackson. Suitable for use in semester-length courses on African American Music, the book captures the fascinating story of a proud heritage whose roots grew centuries ago, and whose influences serve as a backdrop not only for African American music, but as a cornerstone for other American music as well.

A Celebration of Black History through Music

Blair Bielawski
A Celebration of Black History through Music Book PDF

Author : Blair Bielawski
Publisher : Milliken Publishing Company
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429115032

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A Celebration of Black History through Music by Blair Bielawski Pdf

Introduce your students to the rich history of African-American music with "A Celebration of Black History through Music"from spirituals to hip-hop. Featuring some of the most important musicians of each style of music covered, "A Celebration of Black History through Music" highlights how the roots of African-American music can be traced from the slave songs of the 1700s through hip-hop music of the 1970s and 80s, and demonstrates how this music has influenced and shaped the music of the world. Words alone will not do justice to any of the music described in this book. An enhanced CD containing audio examples of the featured music styles is included to allow your students to hear the music in the lessons. In addition, a discography, reproducible worksheets, extension activities, and a complete PowerPoint presentation are all included for use with your class.

New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming

Herlin Riley,Johnny Vidacovich
New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming Book PDF

Author : Herlin Riley,Johnny Vidacovich
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drum
ISBN : 0897249216

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New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming by Herlin Riley,Johnny Vidacovich Pdf

This book is based on performances and transcriptions from the DCI music videos Herlin Riley: Ragtime & beyond, and Johnny Vidacovich: Street beats modern applications. Additional interviews and essays on: Baby Dodds, Vernel Fournier, Ed Blackwell, James Black and Freddie Kohlman, Smokey Johnson, David Lee, and bassist Bill Huntington.

African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina

Sarah Bryan,Beverly Bush Patterson,Michelle Lanier
African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina Book PDF

Author : Sarah Bryan,Beverly Bush Patterson,Michelle Lanier
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469610795

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African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina by Sarah Bryan,Beverly Bush Patterson,Michelle Lanier Pdf

Includes CD with "music from artists in Edgecombe, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Nash, Pitt, Wayne and Wilson Counties."

The Music in African American Fiction

Robert H. Cataliotti
The Music in African American Fiction Book PDF

Author : Robert H. Cataliotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317945260

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The Music in African American Fiction by Robert H. Cataliotti Pdf

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)

Cross the Water Blues

Neil A. Wynn
Cross the Water Blues Book PDF

Author : Neil A. Wynn
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781604735475

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Cross the Water Blues by Neil A. Wynn Pdf

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.