The Music of Black Americans

by Southern, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9780393038439
• ISBN10: 0393038432
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

A new edition of the classic text on African American music. 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.

Author Biography

Eileen Southern is Professor Emerita of Music and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Song in a Strange Land 1619-1775
The African Legacy	p. 3
The Colonial Era	p. 23
Let My People Go 1776-1865
Two Wars and the New Nation	p. 63
Antebellum Urban Life	p. 97
Antebellum Rural Life	p. 151
The War Years and Emancipation	p. 205
Blow Ye the Trumpet 1865-1919
After the War	p. 223
The New Century	p. 265
Precursors of Jazz	p. 313
Lift Every Voice 1920-1996
The Jazz Age	p. 365
The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond	p. 404
The Mid-Century Decades	p. 466
Singers, Instrumentalists, and Composers	p. 523
Currents in Contemporary Arenas	p. 567
Bibliography And Discography	p. 611
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