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The power of Black music : interpreting its history from Africa to the United States / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Floyd, Samuel A., Jr., 1937-2016.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Music.
- Music--United States--History and criticism.
- Music.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [1995]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Bold and original, The Power of Black Music offers a new way of listening to the music of black America and appreciating its profound contribution to all American music. Striving to break down the barriers that remain between high art and low art, it brilliantly illuminates the centuries-old linkage between the music, myths, and rituals of Africa and the continuing evolution and enduring vitality of African-American music. Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. accompanies readers on a fascinating journey from the original rings of dance, drum, and song shared by people across Africa, through the ring shout's powerful merging of music and dance in the slave culture, to the funeral parade practices of the early New Orleans jazzmen, the bluesmen in the twenties, the beboppers in the forties, and the free jazz, rock, Motown, and concert hall composers of the sixties and beyond.
- Contents:
- African music, religion, and narrative
- Transformations
- Syncretization and synthesis : folk and written traditions
- African-American modernism, signifyin(g), and black music
- The negro renaissance : Harlem and Chicago flowerings
- Transitions : function and difference in myth and ritual
- Continuity and discontinuity : the fifties
- The sixties and after
- Troping the blues : From spirituals to the concert hall
- The object of call-response : the signifyin(g) symbol
- Implications and conclusions.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-295), discography (pages 297-304), filmography (page 305), and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- ISBN:
- 0198024371
- 9780198024378
- Publisher Number:
- 99958347444
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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