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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 : 55,6 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.

The Story of African American Music

Andrew Pina
The Story of African American Music Book PDF

Author : Andrew Pina
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534560734

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The Story of African American Music by Andrew Pina Pdf

The influence of African Americans on music in the United States cannot be overstated. A large variety of musical genres owe their beginnings to black musicians. Jazz, rap, funk, R&B, and even techno have roots in African American culture. This volume chronicles the history of African American music, with spotlights on influential black musicians of the past and present. Historical and contemporary photographs, including primary sources, contribute to an in-depth look at this essential part of American musical history.

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 : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317934424

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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.

I See the Rhythm of Gospel

Toyomi Igus
I See the Rhythm of Gospel Book PDF

Author : Toyomi Igus
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780310423997

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I See the Rhythm of Gospel by Toyomi Igus Pdf

'We free now, baby,' mama whispers as we bounce and sway with the wagon's twists and turns over roads of clay through the land that oppressed us to a new world, a brand new day. The dynamic author/illustrator team of Toyomi Igus and Michele Wood has come together again to produce I See the Rhythm of Gospel, a sequel to the Coretta Scott King Award-winning I See the Rhythm. Readers of all ages will be captivated by this informative and inspirational blend of poetry, art, and music that relates the history of gospel music as reflected through the journey of African Americans from their arrival as slaves in America to the election of our first black president, Barack Obama.

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.

Paris Blues

Andy Fry
Paris Blues Book PDF

Author : Andy Fry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226138954

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Paris Blues by Andy Fry Pdf

The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as much of a Paris phenomenon as it was a Chicago and New York scene. In Paris Blues, Andy Fry provides an alternative history of African American music and musicians in France, one that looks beyond familiar personalities and well-rehearsed stories. He pinpoints key issues of race and nation in France’s complicated jazz history from the 1920s through the 1950s. While he deals with many of the traditional icons—such as Josephine Baker, Django Reinhardt, and Sidney Bechet, among others—what he asks is how they came to be so iconic, and what their stories hide as well as what they preserve. Fry focuses throughout on early jazz and swing but includes its re-creation—reinvention—in the 1950s. Along the way, he pays tribute to forgotten traditions such as black musical theater, white show bands, and French wartime swing. Paris Blues provides a nuanced account of the French reception of African Americans and their music and contributes greatly to a growing literature on jazz, race, and nation in France.

California Soul

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje,Eddie S. Meadows
California Soul Book PDF

Author : Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje,Eddie S. Meadows
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0520206282

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California Soul by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje,Eddie S. Meadows Pdf

"Documented with great care and affection, this book is filled with revelations about the intermingling of peoples, styles of music, business interests, night-life pleasures, and the strange ways lived experience shaped black music as America's music in California." —Charles Keil, co-author of Music Grooves

Race Music

Guthrie P. Ramsey
Race Music Book PDF

Author : Guthrie P. Ramsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520243330

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Race Music by Guthrie P. Ramsey Pdf

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.

Jazz and Justice

Gerald Horne
Jazz and Justice Book PDF

Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781583677865

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Jazz and Justice by Gerald Horne Pdf

A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New Orleans—based on the musical traditions of Africans, newly freed from slavery. Grounded in the music known as the “blues,” which expressed the pain, sufferings, and hopes of Black folk then pulverized by Jim Crow, this new music entered the world via the instruments that had been abandoned by departing military bands after the Civil War. Jazz and Justice examines the economic, social, and political forces that shaped this music into a phenomenal US—and Black American—contribution to global arts and culture. Horne assembles a galvanic story depicting what may have been the era’s most virulent economic—and racist—exploitation, as jazz musicians battled organized crime, the Ku Klux Klan, and other variously malignant forces dominating the nightclub scene where jazz became known. Horne pays particular attention to women artists, such as pianist Mary Lou Williams and trombonist Melba Liston, and limns the contributions of musicians with Native American roots. This is the story of a beautiful lotus, growing from the filth of the crassest form of human immiseration.

African American Musicians & Entertainers

Joanne Randolph
African American Musicians Entertainers Book PDF

Author : Joanne Randolph
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766093065

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African American Musicians & Entertainers by Joanne Randolph Pdf

Imagine a world in which gospel, the blues, jazz, R&B, and rock 'n' roll didn't exist. These indigenous American musical forms are the product of, and a moving expression of the African American experience. Musical geniuses and innovators like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, B. B. King, and Jimi Hendrix turned individual and collective histories of suffering and injustice into soul-stirring, monumental art that shattered boundaries, shifted perceptions, and contributed to progress in civil rights. Their efforts were matched by other African Americans in the entertainment field, like Jackie Robinson, Josephine Baker, and Sidney Poitier. A celebration of music, movies, and a growing movement for equality, this collection will inspire, enlighten, and energize teen readers.

African American Musicians

Claudette Hegel
African American Musicians Book PDF

Author : Claudette Hegel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781422292808

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African American Musicians by Claudette Hegel Pdf

African Americans—famous and anonymous alike—have helped shape popular musical genres ranging from jazz and blues to rock 'n' roll and rap. This book provides a vivid account of that process, beginning with the work songs and spirituals of slaves and continuing up to the present. African-American Musicians tells the stories of figures such as bluesman Robert Johnson, whose guitar playing was so extraordinary that people said he must have made a deal with the devil; jazz great Duke Ellington, considered one of America's greatest composers and bandleaders; classical singer Marian Anderson, who struck a blow for civil rights with her music; Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop"; and many, many more.

The Music of Black Americans

Eileen Southern
The Music of Black Americans Book PDF

Author : Eileen Southern
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393038432

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The Music of Black Americans by Eileen Southern Pdf

Beginning with the arrival of the first Africans in the English colonies, Eileen Southern weaves a fascinating narrative of intense musical activity. As singers, players, and composers, black American musicians are fully chronicled in this landmark book. Now in the third edition, the author has brought the entire text up to date and has added a wealth of new material covering the latest developments in gospel, blues, jazz, classical, crossover, Broadway, and rap as they relate to African American music.

The Story of African American Music

Andrew Pina
The Story of African American Music Book PDF

Author : Andrew Pina
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534560741

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The Story of African American Music by Andrew Pina Pdf

The influence of African Americans on music in the United States cannot be overstated. A large variety of musical genres owe their beginnings to black musicians. Jazz, rap, funk, R&B, and even techno have roots in African American culture. This volume chronicles the history of African American music, with spotlights on influential black musicians of the past and present. Historical and contemporary photographs, including primary sources, contribute to an in-depth look at this essential part of American musical history.

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 : 54,6 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)

The Songs Became the Stories

Robert H. Cataliotti
The Songs Became the Stories Book PDF

Author : Robert H. Cataliotti
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082048850X

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The Songs Became the Stories by Robert H. Cataliotti Pdf

The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African-American Fiction, 1970-2005 is a sequel to The Music in African-American Fiction, which traced the representation of music in fiction from its mid-nineteenth-century roots in slave narratives through the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. The Songs Became the Stories continues the historical, critical and musicological analyses of the first book through an examination of many of the major figures in African-American fiction over the past thirty-five years, including Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Nathaniel Mackey, Alice Walker, Albert Murray and John Edgar Wideman. The volume also includes an extensive annotated discography and excerpts from first-hand interviews with major African-American musical artists.