African American music : an introduction

African American music : an introduction /

American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music...

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Other Authors: Burnim, Mellonee V. (Mellonee Victoria), 1950- (Editor), Maultsby, Portia K. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Online Access: Click to access (Berklee OnePass required)
Local Note:Available through EBSCO.
Table of Contents:
  • The translated African cultural and musical past / Portia K. Maultsby
  • African American instrument construction and music making / Ernest D. Brown Jr.
  • Secular folk music / Dena Epstein with contributions from Rosita M. Sands
  • Spirituals / Mellonee V. Burnim
  • Quartets : jubilee to gospel / Joyce Marie Jackson
  • Ragtime / Ingebord Harer
  • Blues / David Evans
  • Art/classical music / Josephine R.B. Wright
  • Jazz / Ingrid Monson
  • Gospel / Mellonee V. Burnim
  • Musical theater / Thomas Riis
  • Rhythm and blues/R & B / Portia K. Maultsby
  • Soul / Portia K. Maultsby
  • Funk / Portia K. Maultsby
  • Disco and house / Kai Fikentscher
  • Detroit techno / Denise Dalphond
  • Hip-hop and rap / Dawn Norfleet.

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