African American Music: An Introduction

by Burnim; Mellonee

• ISBN13: 9780415941372
• ISBN10: 0415941377
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Written by the top authorities on different musical styles and cultural issues in African-American music, African-American Music: An Introduction presents an outstanding survey that looks at the progress of this legendary music form, from its earliest folk traditions through to the Rap and Hip Hop of today's modern music.Focusing on musical genres and styles, this edited collection of articles includes individual chronological overviews and chapters that look at interpreting the musical style. Comprehensive in its study, African America Musiclooks at:* blues* ragtime* jazz* musical theater* art and classical music* R&B* Rap and Hip Hop.Introduced with a section on African antecedents and ending with a section on processes, the book reviews the aesthetics of African-American culture and music both a force of cultural resistance and change of global hegemony.This book will be a must read for all studentsof African-American music and anyone wishing to find out more about this legendary music.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Editors and Contributors	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Intellectual History	p. 7
Genres	p. 33
Secular Folk Music	p. 35
Religious Music	p. 51
Blues	p. 79
Chronological Overview	p. 79
The Blues in Transcultural Contexts	p. 96
Ragtime	p. 127
Jazz	p. 145
Chronological Overview	p. 145
Interpreting Jazz	p. 167
Musical Theater	p. 185
Art/Classical Music	p. 211
Chronological Overview	p. 211
Interpreting Classical Music	p. 230
Rhythm and Blues	p. 245
Soul	p. 271
Funk	p. 293
Disco and House	p. 315
Techno	p. 331
Hip-Hop and Rap	p. 353
Issues of Mass Mediation	p. 391
The Music Industry	p. 393
The Popular Music Industry	p. 393
The Gospel Music Industry	p. 416
Profiles of Record Labels	p. 431
Motown	p. 431
Stax	p. 452
Philadelphia International	p. 470
Issues of Gender	p. 491
Women in African American Music	p. 493
Gospel	p. 493
Blues	p. 508
Jazz	p. 528
Women-Identified Music	p. 541
Rock	p. 558
Musical Agency	p. 585
African American Music as Resistance	p. 587
Antebellum Period	p. 587
Civil Rights Movement	p. 598
Post-Civil Rights Period	p. 624
Glossary	p. 643
Bibliography	p. 651
Discography/Videography	p. 685
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