African American Music: An Introduction

by Burnim; Mellonee

• ISBN13: 9780415941389
• ISBN10: 0415941385
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-21
• 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	xi
Editors and Contributors	xv
Introduction	1	(6)
Mellonee V. Burnim
Portia K. Maultsby
Intellectual History	7	(26)
Portia K. Maultsby
Mellonee V. Burnim
Susan Oehler
Part I Genres	33	(358)
Secular Folk Music	35	(16)
Dena J. Epstein
Rosita M. Sands
Religious Music	51	(28)
Mellonee V. Burnim
Blues	79	(48)
Chronological Overview	79	(17)
David Evans
The Blues in Transcultural Contexts	96	(31)
Susan Oehler
Ragtime	127	(18)
Ingeborg Harer
Jazz	145	(40)
Chronological Overview	145	(22)
Ingrid Monson
Interpreting Jazz	167	(18)
Travis A. Jackson
Musical Theater	185	(26)
Thomas L. Riis
Art/Classical Music	211	(34)
Chronological Overview	211	(19)
Josephine R. B. Wright
Interpreting Classical Music	230	(15)
Olly Wilson
Rhythm and Blues	245	(26)
Portia K. Maultsby
Soul	271	(22)
Portia K. Maultsby
Funk	293	(22)
Portia K. Maultsby
Disco and House	315	(16)
Kai Fikentscher
Techno	331	(22)
Beverly May
Hip-Hop and Rap	353	(38)
Dawn M. Norfleet
Part II Issues of Mass Mediation	391	(100)
The Music Industry	393	(38)
The Popular Music Industry	393	(23)
Reebee Garofalo
The Gospel Music Industry	416	(15)
Mellonee V. Burnim
Profiles of Record Labels	431	(60)
Motown	431	(21)
Charles Sykes
Stax	452	(18)
Rob Bowman
Philadelphia International	470	(21)
John A. Jackson
Part III Issues of Gender	491	(94)
Women in African American Music	493	(92)
Gospel	493	(15)
Mellonee V. Burnim
Blues	508	(20)
Daphne Duval Harrison
Jazz	528	(13)
Sherrie Tucker
Women-Identified Music	541	(17)
Eileen M. Hayes
Rock	558	(27)
Maureen Mahon
Part IV Musical Agency	585	(58)
African American Music as Resistance	587	(56)
Antebellum Period	587	(11)
Lawrence W. Levine
Civil Rights Movement	598	(26)
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Post-Civil Rights Period	624	(19)
Mark Anthony Neal
Glossary	643	(8)
Bibliography	651	(34)
Discography/Videography	685	(10)
Index	695