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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.
This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research
and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American
Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series
published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American
Life, and African American Music in Global Perspective. In this
collection, a group of predominately Black scholars explores a
variety of topics with works that pioneered new methodologies and
modes of inquiry for hearing and studying Black music. These
extracts and articles examine the World War II jazz scene; look at
female artists like gospel star Shirley Caesar and jazz
musician-arranger Melba Liston; illuminate the South Bronx milieu
that folded many forms of black expressive culture into rap; and
explain Hamilton's massive success as part of the "tanning" of
American culture that began when Black music entered the
mainstream. Part sourcebook and part survey of historic music
scholarship, Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 collects
groundbreaking work that redefines our view of Black music and its
place in American music history. Contributors: Nelson George, Wayne
Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, Eileen M. Hayes, Loren
Kajikawa, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tammy L. Kernodle, Cheryl L. Keyes,
Gwendolyn Pough, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mark Tucker, and Sherrie
Tucker
This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research
and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American
Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series
published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American
Life, and African American Music in Global Perspective. In this
collection, a group of predominately Black scholars explores a
variety of topics with works that pioneered new methodologies and
modes of inquiry for hearing and studying Black music. These
extracts and articles examine the World War II jazz scene; look at
female artists like gospel star Shirley Caesar and jazz
musician-arranger Melba Liston; illuminate the South Bronx milieu
that folded many forms of black expressive culture into rap; and
explain Hamilton's massive success as part of the "tanning" of
American culture that began when Black music entered the
mainstream. Part sourcebook and part survey of historic music
scholarship, Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 collects
groundbreaking work that redefines our view of Black music and its
place in American music history. Contributors: Nelson George, Wayne
Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, Eileen M. Hayes, Loren
Kajikawa, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tammy L. Kernodle, Cheryl L. Keyes,
Gwendolyn Pough, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mark Tucker, and Sherrie
Tucker
First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz
musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year
career working in-and stretching beyond-a dizzying range of musical
styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped
expand jazz's compositional language. Her generosity made her a
valued friend and mentor to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie
Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her late-in-life flowering of faith
saw her embrace a spiritual jazz oriented toward advancing the
civil rights struggle and helping wounded souls.Tammy L. Kernodle
details Williams's life in music against the backdrop of
controversies over women's place in jazz and bitter arguments over
the music's evolution. Williams repeatedly asserted her artistic
and personal independence to carve out a place despite widespread
bafflement that a woman exhibited such genius. Embracing Williams's
contradictions and complexities, Kernodle also explores a personal
life troubled by lukewarm professional acceptance, loneliness,
relentless poverty, bad business deals, and difficult marriages.
In-depth and epic in scope, Soul on Soul restores a pioneering
African American woman to her rightful place in jazz history.
First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz
musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year
career working in-and stretching beyond-a dizzying range of musical
styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped
expand jazz's compositional language. Her generosity made her a
valued friend and mentor to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie
Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her late-in-life flowering of faith
saw her embrace a spiritual jazz oriented toward advancing the
civil rights struggle and helping wounded souls.Tammy L. Kernodle
details Williams's life in music against the backdrop of
controversies over women's place in jazz and bitter arguments over
the music's evolution. Williams repeatedly asserted her artistic
and personal independence to carve out a place despite widespread
bafflement that a woman exhibited such genius. Embracing Williams's
contradictions and complexities, Kernodle also explores a personal
life troubled by lukewarm professional acceptance, loneliness,
relentless poverty, bad business deals, and difficult marriages.
In-depth and epic in scope, Soul on Soul restores a pioneering
African American woman to her rightful place in jazz history.
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.
The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in
the American Heartland engages in an important conversation about
race relations in the twentieth century and significantly extends
the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. The essays
in this collection examine instances of racial and gender
oppression in the American heartland-which is conceived of here as
having a specific cultural significance which resists diversity-in
the twentieth century, instances which have often been ignored or
overshadowed in typical historical narratives. The contributors
explore the intersections of suffrage, race relations, and cultural
histories, and add to an ongoing dialogue about representations of
race and gender within the context of regional and national
narratives
The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in
the American Heartland engages in an important conversation about
race relations in the twentieth century and significantly extends
the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. The essays
in this collection examine instances of racial and gender
oppression in the American heartland-which is conceived of here as
having a specific cultural significance which resists diversity-in
the twentieth century, instances which have often been ignored or
overshadowed in typical historical narratives. The contributors
explore the intersections of suffrage, race relations, and cultural
histories, and add to an ongoing dialogue about representations of
race and gender within the context of regional and national
narratives
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