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This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research
and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American
Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University
of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life.
In these selections, experts from a cross-section of disciplines
engage with fundamental issues in ways that changed our perceptions
of Black music. The topics includes the culturally and musically
complex Black music-making of colonial America; string bands and
other lesser-known genres practiced by Black artists; the jubilee
industry and its audiences; and innovators in jazz, blues, and
Black gospel. Eclectic and essential, Music in Black American Life,
1600-1945 offers specialists and students alike a gateway to the
history and impact of Black music in the United States.
Contributors: R. Reid Badger, Rae Linda Brown, Samuel A. Floyd Jr.,
Sandra Jean Graham, Jeffrey Magee, Robert M. Marovich, Harriet
Ottenheimer, Eileen Southern, Katrina Dyonne Thompson, Stephen
Wade, and Charles Wolfe
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.
This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research
and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American
Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University
of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life.
In these selections, experts from a cross-section of disciplines
engage with fundamental issues in ways that changed our perceptions
of Black music. The topics includes the culturally and musically
complex Black music-making of colonial America; string bands and
other lesser-known genres practiced by Black artists; the jubilee
industry and its audiences; and innovators in jazz, blues, and
Black gospel. Eclectic and essential, Music in Black American Life,
1600-1945 offers specialists and students alike a gateway to the
history and impact of Black music in the United States.
Contributors: R. Reid Badger, Rae Linda Brown, Samuel A. Floyd Jr.,
Sandra Jean Graham, Jeffrey Magee, Robert M. Marovich, Harriet
Ottenheimer, Eileen Southern, Katrina Dyonne Thompson, Stephen
Wade, and Charles Wolfe
As any well-organized, carefully annotated bibliography does, this
work by Southern and Wright brings order out of chaos. The 2,328
entries identify books, articles, sermons, pamphlets, and
broadsides, among other formats, all centered on black folk culture
with emphasis on the manifestations of that culture from 1600 to
1920 through song, dance, games, sermons, and illustrations. . . .
This carefully done and useful bibliography is recommended for
libraries on all campuses where there is an interest in the black
experience. Choice African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon,
Tale, and Dance is undeniably the most valuable resource available
to scholars engaged in Afro-American folk culture research. An
untapped wealth of primary information has been chronologically
cataloged within this comprehensive, annotated guide. It covers a
period of over 300 years of African-American cultural history in
the United States. Materials fall into three categories: literary
publications, iconographical records, and collections of song,
tale, and sermon texts. Focusing on folk culture, 2,328 items were
chosen for their historical relevance as well as to insure broad
representation. Eileen Southern and Josephine Wright's bibliography
provides researchers with the tools needed to shatter myths and
stereotypes and to form concise theses supported by extensive
evidence. The bibliography is divided into four major chronological
sections: Colonial-Federalist, Antebellum, Post-Emancipation, and
Early Twentieth Century. A fifth section, The WPA Slave Narrative
Collection, includes materials (collected in the 1930s) that are
essential to a serious discussion of American slavery. Within these
five sections materials are classified as literature, artwork,
and/or collections. Literature and artwork subsections are further
divided into social activities, religious experience, song, and
tale. Iconographical entries often compliment the literary ones and
some themes run throughout the book. The materials are indexed by
names of authors and artists, by subject, and by first lines of
songs.
The collection includes documents dating from early America through
the twentieth century. Monumental figures such as Frederick
Douglass, Solomon Northrup, W. E. B. DuBois, W. C. Handy, Ethel
Waters, Dizzy Gillespie, Imamu Baraka, and Martha Jackson are
represented, as are several complete musical works, by Francis
Johnson and others.
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