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Re-Searching Black Music (Paperback)
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Re-Searching Black Music (Paperback)
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In this provocative book, Jon Michael Spencer offers a new paradigm
for the study of African American music. Proceeding from the
proposition that black culture in America cannot be considered
apart from its religious and philosophical roots, Spencer argues
that ""theology and musicology serving together"" can form the
basis of a holistic, integrative approach to black music and,
indeed, to black culture in all its aspects. As he shows in his
opening chapters, Spencer's scholarly method - theomusicology -
derives from two fundamental, intertwined attributes of African
American culture: its underlying rhythmicity and its thoroughly
religious nature. The author then applies this approach, in
successive chapters, to the folk, popular, and classical music
produced by black Americans. Finally, he considers the ethical
implications that this ""re-searching"" of black music uncovers.
""(A) spiritual archaeology of music leads to a recognition that we
are estranged from ourselves"", he writes. ""This estrangement has
occurred by virtue of our maintaining a doctrine of belief that
sides the sacred, spiritual, and religious in respective opposition
to the profane, sexual, and cultural. The recognition of this
estrangement should propel us toward reconciliation, for it is the
natural impulse of the ethical agent to resolve life's tensions in
pursuit of human happiness"".
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