Bluespeople Illustrated

Author : Amiri Baraka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015037019141

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Blues People by Amiri Baraka Pdf

This study attempts to place jazz and the blues within the context of American social history. The author, Leroi Jones - also known as the poet Amiri Baraka - combines a knowledge of black American culture with his direct contact with many of the musicians who have provided the backbone to this vital strand of American 20th-century culture.

Author : Leroi Jones
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780688184742

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Blues People by Leroi Jones Pdf

"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music." So says Amiri Baraka in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960's, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls "negro music" on white America -- not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history.

Author : Charles T. Banner-Haley
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781617031137

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The Fruits of Integration by Charles T. Banner-Haley Pdf

In late twentieth-century America, the black middle class has occupied a unique position. It greatly influenced the way African Americans were perceived and presented to the greater society, and it set roles and guidelines for the nation's black masses. Though historically a small group, it has attempted to be a model for inspiration and uplift. As a key force in the "Africanizing" of American culture, the black middle class has been both a shaper and a mirror during the past three decades. This study of that era shows that the fruits of integration have been at once sweet and bitter. This history of a pivotal group in American society will cause reflection, discussion, and debate.

Author : Jon Michael Spencer
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0870497839

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Blues and Evil by Jon Michael Spencer Pdf

Author : Detroit Public Library,E. Azalia Hackley Memorial Collection
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015082904874

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Catalog of the E. Azalia Hackley Memorial Collection of Negro Music, Dance, and Drama by Detroit Public Library,E. Azalia Hackley Memorial Collection Pdf

Author : A. Yemisi Jimoh
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1572331720

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Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction by A. Yemisi Jimoh Pdf

Jimoh (English, U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville) investigates African American intracultural issues that inform a more broadly intertextual use of music in creating characters and themes in fiction by US black writers. Conventional close readings of texts, she argues, often miss historical-sociopolitical discourses that can illuminate African American narratives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jon Michael Spencer
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : 087049760X

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Black Hymnody by Jon Michael Spencer Pdf

Author : Matthew Calihman,Gerald Early
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603293563

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Approaches to Teaching Baraka's Dutchman by Matthew Calihman,Gerald Early Pdf

First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources for biographical information, critical and literary backgrounds, and the play's early production history. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," address viewing and staging Dutchman theatrically in class. They help instructors ground the play artistically in the black arts movement, the beat generation, the theater of the absurd, pop music, and the blues. Background on civil rights, black power movements, the history of slavery, and Jim Crow laws helps contextualize the play politically and historically.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015054490381

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Music, Books on Music, and Sound Recordings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Josef Sorett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199844937

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Spirit in the Dark by Josef Sorett Pdf

While many of the most significant black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century have been perceived as secular, Josef Sorett demonstrates in this book that religion was actually a fertile, fluid and formidable force within these movements. Spirit in the Dark examines how African American literary visions were animated and organized by religion and spirituality, from the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026879549

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National Union Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Author : Graham Vulliamy,Edward Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317223382

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Popular Music by Graham Vulliamy,Edward Lee Pdf

The approach of this book, first published in 1982, is multi-disciplinary. Popular music, it is argued, is not only a musical but also a social phenomenon; the criteria needed to assess it are different from those used in the appreciation of ‘classical’ music. The first section of this guide is devoted to setting out just what those criteria should be. A second section puts forward bases for course construction that are detailed and flexible. A final section provides a list of further resources.

Author : Nancy S. Love,Mark Mattern
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781438449111

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Doing Democracy by Nancy S. Love,Mark Mattern Pdf

Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future. Doing Democracy examines the potential of the arts and popular culture to extend and deepen the experience of democracy. Its contributors address the use of photography, cartooning, memorials, monuments, poetry, literature, music, theater, festivals, and parades to open political spaces, awaken critical consciousness, engage marginalized groups in political activism, and create new, more democratic societies. This volume demonstrates how ordinary people use the creative and visionary capacity of the arts and popular culture to shape alternative futures. It is unique in its insistence that democratic theorists and activists should acknowledge and employ affective as well as rational faculties in the ongoing struggle for democracy. “Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern have collected a first-rate set of studies that illuminate the intersection between art and politics in the contemporary era. The text demonstrates how activist art and cultural politics can promote democratic politics and how democracy is enriched and enlivened by activist art projects. This book should interest everyone concerned with the fate of art and democracy in the contemporary era and how they can help nourish each other.” — Douglas Kellner, author of Media Spectacle and Insurrection, 2011: From the Arab Uprisings to Occupy Everywhere

Author : Imamu Amiri Baraka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1113786718

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Blues People by Imamu Amiri Baraka Pdf

Author : Kim Simpson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441136787

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Early '70s Radio by Kim Simpson Pdf

Early '70s Radio focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "formats," which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences. This formatting revolution took place in a period rife with heated politics, identity anxiety, large-scale disappointments and seemingly insoluble social problems. As industry professionals worked overtime to understand audiences and to generate formats, they also laid the groundwork for market segmentation. Audiences, meanwhile, approached these formats as safe havens wherein they could re-imagine and redefine key issues of identity. A fresh and accessible exercise in audience interpretation, Early '70s Radio is organized according to the era's five prominent formats and analyzes each of these in relation to their targeted demographics, including Top 40, "soft rock", album-oriented rock, soul and country. The book closes by making a case for the significance of early '70s formatting in light of commercial radio today.