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Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is an award-winning musicologist, music
historian, composer, and pianist whose prescient theoretical and
critical interventions have bridged Black cultural studies and
musicology. Representing twenty-five years of commentary and
scholarship, these essays document Ramsey's search to understand
America's Black musical past and present and to find his own voice
as an African American writer in the field of musicology. This
far-reaching collection embraces historiography, ethnography,
cultural criticism, musical analysis, and autobiography, traversing
the landscape of Black musical expression from sacred music to art
music, and jazz to hip-hop. Taken together, these essays and the
provocative introduction that precedes them are testament to the
legacy work that has come to define a field, as well as a rousing
call to readers to continue to ask the hard questions and write the
hard truths.
Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all
time, he stands as one of the twentieth century's most dynamic and
fiercely adventurous musical minds. His expansive musicianship,
riveting performances, and inventive compositions expanded the
bebop idiom and pushed jazz musicians of all stripes to higher
standards of performance. Yet Powell remains one of American
music's most misunderstood figures, and the story of his
exceptional talent is often overshadowed by his history of alcohol
abuse, mental instability, and brutalization at the hands of white
authorities. In this first extended study of the social
significance of Powell's place in the American musical landscape,
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. shows how the pianist expanded his own
artistic horizons and moved his chosen idiom into new realms.
Illuminating and multi-layered, "The Amazing Bud Powell"
centralizes Powell's contributions as it details the collision of
two vibrant political economies: the discourses of art and the
practice of blackness.
This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African
American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.,
begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences
with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking
Sunday-morning worship services, family gatherings with food and
dancing, and jam sessions at local nightclubs. This lays the
foundation for a brilliant discussion of how musical meaning
emerges in the private and communal realms of lived experience and
how African American music has shaped and reflected identities in
the black community. Deeply informed by Ramsey's experience as an
accomplished musician, a sophisticated cultural theorist, and an
enthusiast brought up in the community he discusses, "Race Music"
explores the global influence and popularity of African American
music, its social relevance, and key questions regarding its
interpretation and criticism. Beginning with jazz, rhythm and
blues, and gospel, this book demonstrates that while each genre of
music is distinct - possessing its own conventions, performance
practices, and formal qualities - each is also grounded in similar
techniques and conceptual frameworks identified with African
American musical traditions. Ramsey provides vivid glimpses of the
careers of Dinah Washington, Louis Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, Cootie
Williams, and Mahalia Jackson, among others, to show how the social
changes of the 1940s elicited an Afro-modernism that inspired much
of the music and culture that followed. "Race Music" illustrates
how, by transcending the boundaries between genres, black
communities bridged generational divides and passed down knowledge
of musical forms and styles. It also considers how the discourse of
soul music contributed to the vibrant social climate of the Black
Power Era. Multilayered and masterfully written, "Race Music"
provides a dynamic framework for rethinking the many facets of
African American music and the ethnocentric energy that infused its
creation.
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is an award-winning musicologist, music
historian, composer, and pianist whose prescient theoretical and
critical interventions have bridged Black cultural studies and
musicology. Representing twenty-five years of commentary and
scholarship, these essays document Ramsey's search to understand
America's Black musical past and present and to find his own voice
as an African American writer in the field of musicology. This
far-reaching collection embraces historiography, ethnography,
cultural criticism, musical analysis, and autobiography, traversing
the landscape of Black musical expression from sacred music to art
music, and jazz to hip-hop. Taken together, these essays and the
provocative introduction that precedes them are testament to the
legacy work that has come to define a field, as well as a rousing
call to readers to continue to ask the hard questions and write the
hard truths.
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