The Afro Blues Tradition

Author : Kwame Copeland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Literary Collections
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!"

Author : David Evans
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520333772

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Big Road Blues by David Evans Pdf

Author : Bruce Bastin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252065212

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Red River Blues by Bruce Bastin Pdf

This story of the origins and evolution of the American blues tradition draws on oral history interviews and research into neglected primary sources. Book jacket.

Author : Craig Hansen Werner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252066413

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Playing the Changes by Craig Hansen Werner Pdf

A final sequence highlights the centrality of black music to African American writing, arguing that recognizing blues, gospel, and jazz as theoretically suggestive cultural practices rather than specific musical forms points to what is most distinctive in twentieth-century African American writing: its ability to subvert attempts to limit its engagement with psychological, historical, political, or aesthetic realities.

Author : Tony Bolden
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0252028740

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Afro-blue by Tony Bolden Pdf

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.

Author : Bernard W. Bell
Publisher : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012847482

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The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition by Bernard W. Bell Pdf

This study is an addition to the growing body of scholarly analysis examining the Afro-American contribution. It is based on the premise that in the last 25 years the traditional canon of American literature excluded important minority authors. Proceeding chronologically from William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853), to experimental novels of the 1980s, Bell comments on more than 150 works, with close readings of 41 novelists. His remarks are framed by an inquiry into the distinctive elements of Afro-American fiction. ISBN 0-87023-568-0 : $25.00.

Author : Josh Kun
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520244245

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Audiotopia by Josh Kun Pdf

“With Audiotopia, Kun emerges as a pre-eminent analyst, interpreter, and theorist of inter-ethnic dialogue in US music, literature, and visual art. This book is a guide to how scholarship will look in the future—the first fully realized product of a new generation of scholars thrown forth by tumultuous social ferment and eager to talk about the world that they see emerging around them.”—George Lipsitz, author of Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture "The range and depth of Audiotopia is thrilling. It's not only that Josh Kun knows so much-it's that he knows what to make of what he knows."—Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century "The way Josh Kun writes about what he hears, the way he unravels word, sound, and power is breathtaking, provocative, and original. A bold, expansive, and lyrical book, Audiotopia is a record of crossings, textures, tangents, and ideas you will want to play again and again."—Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Author : Sharon Harley,Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1574780263

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The Afro-American Woman by Sharon Harley,Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Pdf

""Civil rights activists, educators, writers, artists, and workers - these are the women of The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images, an excellent anthology of essays that provides a more accurate image of the Black woman and her place in history and in the cultural development of our society. Originally published in 1978, The Afro-American Woman includes essays that highlight historical experiences common to Black women. The anthology also features essays that focus on early activists Anna J. Cooper, Nannie Burroughs, and Charlotta A. Bass. This book is a long out-of-print, valuable reference source. It was the first written by Black academics which analyzed these women's experiences from a historical and Black nationalist perspective."--

Author : Douglas Mark Ponton,Uwe Zagratzki
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781622739561

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Blues in the 21st Century: Myth, Self-Expression and Trans-Culturalism by Douglas Mark Ponton,Uwe Zagratzki Pdf

The book is the fruit of Douglas Mark Ponton’s and co-editor Uwe Zagratzki’s enduring interest in the Blues as a musical and cultural phenomenon and source of personal inspiration. Continuing in the tradition of Blues studies established by the likes of Samuel Charters and Paul Oliver, the authors hope to contribute to the revitalisation of the field through a multi-disciplinary approach designed to explore this constantly evolving social phenomenon in all its heterogeneity. Focusing either on particular artists (Lightnin’ Hopkins, Robert Johnson), or specific texts (Langston Hughes’ Weary Blues and Backlash Blues, Jimi Hendrix’s Machine Gun), the book tackles issues ranging from authenticity and musicology in Blues performance to the Blues in diaspora, while also applying techniques of linguistic analysis to the corpora of Blues texts. While some chapters focus on the Blues as a quintessentially American phenomenon, linked to a specific social context, others see it in its current evolutions, as the bearer of vital cultural attitudes into the digital age. This multidisciplinary volume will appeal to a broad range of scholars operating in a number of different academic disciplines, including Musicology, Linguistics, Sociology, History, Ethnomusicology, Literature, Economics and Cultural Studies. It will also interest educators across the Humanities, and could be used to exemplify the application to data of specific analytical methodologies, and as a general introduction to the field of Blues studies.

Author : Linton Kwesi Johnson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781035006342

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Time Come by Linton Kwesi Johnson Pdf

‘Key to understanding Black British history’ – The Sunday Times ‘Sharp and still relevant’ – Zadie Smith One of the great poets of modern times, and a deeply respected political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non-fiction. In Time Come, he selects some of his most powerful prose – book and music reviews published in newspapers and magazines, lectures, obituaries and speeches – for the first time. Written over many decades, these works draw on Johnson’s own Jamaican roots and on Caribbean history to explore the politics of race that continue to inform the Black British experience. Ranging from reflections on the place of music in Caribbean and Black British culture as a creative, defiant response to oppression, to penetrating appraisals of novels, films, poems and plays, and including warm tributes paid to the activists and artists who inspired him to contribute to the struggle for racial equality and social justice, Time Come is a panorama of an exceptional life. Venturing into memoir, it underscores Johnson’s enduring importance in Britain’s cultural history and reminds us of his brilliant, unparalleled legacy. With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack. ‘A mosaic of wise, urgent and moving pieces’ – Kit de Waal ‘As necessary as ever’ – The Observer ‘A book to be savoured and re-read’ – Derek Owusu ‘An outstanding collection’ – Caryl Phillips ‘A necessary book from a writer who continues to inspire’ – Yomi Sode ‘Incisive, engaging, fearless’ – Gary Younge

Author : John Shepherd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351471664

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Whose Music? by John Shepherd Pdf

Whose Music? combines historical, musicological, and sociological materials and styles of analysis in ways that connect to the field of sociology. The analyses of social class systems presented here speak in translatable ways to analyses of musical forms. Not only that, both are connected to an understanding of the organizations through which works are distributed to their audiences. Perhaps most importantly for the contemporary reader, this book depicts the part of the process by which dominant class groups justify their domination--cultural and otherwise.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UCR:31210005495310

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Afro-American Life, History and Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bryan Wagner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674035089

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Disturbing the Peace by Bryan Wagner Pdf

W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary—Wagner gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the black vernacular tradition’s ongoing engagement with the law.

Author : Robin Sylvan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780814798089

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Traces of the Spirit by Robin Sylvan Pdf

Sylvan examines the religious dimensions of popular music subcultures, charting the influence and religious aspects of popular music in mainstream culture today.

Author : Roy Shuker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000511543

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Popular Music Culture by Roy Shuker Pdf

Now in its fifth edition, this popular A–Z student reference book provides a comprehensive survey of key ideas and concepts in popular music culture, examining the social and cultural aspects of popular music. Fully revised with extended coverage of the music industries, sociological concepts and additional references to reading, listening and viewing throughout, the new edition expands on the foundations of popular music culture, tracing the impact of digital technology and changes in the way in which music is created, manufactured, marketed and consumed. The concept of metagenres remains a central part of the book: these are historically, socially, and geographically situated umbrella musical categories, each embracing a wide range of associated genres and subgenres. New or expanded entries include: Charts, Digital music culture, Country music, Education, Ethnicity, Race, Gender, Grime, Heritage, History, Indie, Synth pop, Policy, Punk rock and Streaming. Popular Music Culture: The Key Concepts is an essential reference tool for students studying the social and cultural dimensions of popular music.