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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

Music--United States--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of ""The Star Spangled Banner,"" he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues traditionbefore him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied ""talking"" guitar passage and inserted calls and responses at key points in the musical narrative, Hendrix's performance of the national anthem also hearkened back to a tradition even older than the blues, a traditionrooted in

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1: African Music, Religion, and Narrative; 2: Transformations; 3: Syncretization and Synthesis: Folk and Written Traditions; 4: African-American Modernism, Signifyin(g), and Black Music; 5: The Negro Renaissance: Harlem and Chicago Flowerings; 6: Transitions: Function and Difference in Myth and Ritual; 7: Continuity and Discontinuity: The Fifties; 8: The Sixties and After; 9: Troping the Blues: From Spirituals to the Concert Hall; 10: The Object of Call-Response: The Signifyin(g) Symbol

11: Implications and ConclusionsAppendix; Printed Works Cited; Sound Recordings Cited; Films and Videotapes Cited; Index; Footnotes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-295), discography (p. 297-304), filmography (p. 305), and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-802437-1

9786610526796

1-4294-0641-0

1-280-52679-3

1-280-53503-2

9786610535033

0-19-510975-9

OCLC:

466431378

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06332 hdl