African-American Music An Introduction

by Stewart, Earl L.

• ISBN13: 9780028602943
• ISBN10: 0028602943
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

African-American Music provides an introduction to all the richness and diversity of African-American musical styles, focusing on the distinct characteristics and development of each genre and its inherent styles including: spirituals, blues, gospel, ragtime, jazz, pop, and classical music.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
PART 1 Folk Traditions
General Characteristics of African American Music	3	(16)
Call and Response	3	(2)
Attributes of African Vocality	5	(3)
Rhythmic Features of African American Music	8	(7)
Texture and Harmony	15	(4)
Work Songs, Minstrelsy, and Spirituals	19	(20)
Work Songs	19	(1)
Minstrelsy	20	(1)
Spirituals	21	(2)
Characteristics of Spirituals	23	(3)
Categories of Spirituals	26	(2)
The Dissemination and Popularization of the Spiritual	28	(9)
Spirituals and the Blues	37	(2)
The Blues	39	(26)
General Attributes	39	(7)
Blues Styles	46	(8)
The Blues Principle	54	(1)
Blues Elements in Jazz	54	(3)
Blues Elements in Pre-1950 Popular Songs	57	(3)
Blues Elements in Pre-1950 Gospel Music	60	(1)
Blues Elements in White Post-1950 Popular Music	61	(2)
Blues Elements in Classical Music	63	(2)
Gospel Music	65	(22)
History	66	(4)
Performance Traditions in African American Gospel Music	70	(2)
Characteristics of Black Gospel Music	72	(3)
Other Gospel Composers	75	(5)
Derivative Influences	80	(7)
PART 2 The Jazz Aesthetic
The Emergence of Ragtime	87	(16)
Types of Ragtime	88	(11)
Scott Joplin	99	(4)
Classic Jazz	103	(12)
Stylistic Attributes	103	(4)
Early Cultivators	107	(6)
The Chicago Style	113	(2)
The Emergence of Swing	115	(22)
Swing Style and the Big Band	119	(2)
Elements of Swing	121	(11)
Great Improvisers	132	(5)
Bebop	137	(20)
Schools of Bebop	140	(4)
Elements of the Bebop Style	144	(13)
Jazz: 1950 to 1970	157	(16)
Cool Jazz	158	(6)
Hard Bop	164	(2)
Avant-Grade Nationalism	166	(7)
Jazz: 1970 to the Present	173	(32)
Jazz Rock and Fusion	173	(2)
Free Jazz after 1970	175	(8)
The Neo-Bebop Aesthetic	183	(6)
Third stream and Eclecticism after 1970	189	(16)
PART 3 Popular Styles Since 1940
Rhythm and Blues: 1940 to 1960	205	(16)
Louis Jordan	206	(2)
The Rhythm and Blues Explosion	208	(3)
Doo Wop	211	(5)
Rhythm and Blues in the 1950s	216	(5)
Soul Music: 1960 to 1980	221	(30)
The Innovators of Soul Music	222	(5)
The Rise of stax and Motown	227	(4)
Characteristics of Soul Music	231	(14)
James Brown and the Emergence of the Soul/Funk Tradition	245	(1)
Jimi Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone	246	(2)
Disco	248	(3)
Rap and Beyond: 1980 to the Present	251	(22)
The Roots of Rap	252	(7)
Rap Music from 1979 to 1984	259	(3)
Rap Music: 1985 to the Present	262	(6)
Jazz Rap	268	(5)
PART 4 Theatrical and Classical Traditions
Theatrical and Early Classical Music	273	(18)
Musical Theater	273	(5)
The Roots of African American Classical Music	278	(13)
Classical Music: 1850 to the Present	291	(24)
White Composers Working with Black Idioms	291	(3)
Twentieth-Century Black Classical Music	294	(2)
The Nationalists	296	(9)
Classical Music: 1950 to 1970	305	(6)
Classical Music: 1970 to the Present	311	(4)
Notes	315	(12)
Glossary	327	(8)
Select Bibliography	335	(14)
Select Discography	349	(12)
Permissions	361	(2)
Index of Titles	363
General Index