African American Music: An Introduction - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0415941385 ISBN 13: 9780415941389

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2005

Riassunto

African American Music: An Introduction is a collection of thirty essays by leading scholars whch survey major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. The work brings together, in a single volume, treatments of African American music that have existed largely independent of each other. The research is based in large part on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, while interpreting their narratives through a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. The book is replete with references to seminal recordings and recording artists, musical transcriptions, photographs, and illustrations that bring the music to life as expressions of human beings. At the same time, it includes the kind of musical specificity that brings clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify the music of African-Americans.

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L'autore:

Mellonee V. Burnim is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Adjunct Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University.

Portia K. Maultsby is Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Adjunct Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, and Director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University.

Contenuti:

1. Intellectual History Portia K. Maultsby and Mellonee V. Burnim with contributions from Susan Oehler  Part I Genres  2. Secular Folk Music Dena J. Epstein with contributions from Rosita M. Sands  3. Religious Music Mellonee V. Burnim  4. Blues  Chronological Overview David Evans  The Blues in Transcultural Contexts Susan Oehler  5. Ragtime Ingeborg Harer  6. Jazz Chronological Overview Ingrid Monson  Interpreting Jazz Travis A. Jackson  7. Musical Theater Thomas L. Riis  8. Art/Classical Music  Chronological Overview Josephine R. B. Wright  Interpreting Classical Music Olly Wilson  9. Rhythm and Blues Portia K. Maultsby  10. Soul Portia K. Maultsby  11. Funk Portia K. Maultsby  12. Disco and House Kai Fikentscher  13. Techno Beverly May  14. Hip-Hop and Rap Dawn M. Norfleet  Part II Issues of Mass Mediation  15. The Music Industry  The Popular Music Industry Reebee Garofalo  The Gospel Music Industry Mellonee V. Burnim  16. Profiles of Record Labels  Motown Charles Sykes  Stax Rob Bowman  Philadelphia International John A. Jackson  Part III Issues of Gender  17. Women in African American Music  Gospel Mellonee V. Burnim  Blues Daphne Duval Harrison  Jazz Sherrie Tucker  Women-Identified Music Eileen M. Hayes  Rock Maureen Mahon  Part IV Musical Agency  18. African American Music as Resistance Antebellum Period Lawrence W. Levine  Civil Rights Movement Bernice Johnson Reagon  Post-Civil Rights Period Mark Anthony Neal

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415941385
• ISBN 13: 9780415941389
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 732
• Redattore: Burnim Mellonee V., Maultsby Portia K.