Cross the water blues : African American music in Europe / edited by Neil A. Wynn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wynn, Neil A.

Series:

American made music series.

American made music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music--Influence.

African Americans.

African Americans--Europe--Music--History and criticism.

Popular music--Europe--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This unique collection of essays examines the flow of African American music and musicians across the Atlantic to Europe from the time of slavery to the twentieth century. In a sweeping examination of different musical forms--spirituals, blues, jazz, skiffle, and orchestral music--the contributors consider the reception and influence of black music on a number of different European audiences, particularly in Britain, but also France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The essayists approach the subject through diverse historical, musicological, and philosophical perspectives. A number of essays

Contents:

"Why I sing the blues" : African American culture in the transatlantic world / Neil A. Wynn

Taking the measure of the blues / Paul Oliver

Even philosophers get the blues : feeling bad for no reason / David Webster

Spirituals to (nearly) swing, 1873-1938 / Jeffrey Green

Black music prior to the first world war : American origins and German perspectives / Rainer E. Lotz

Fascination and fear : responses to early jazz in Britain / Catherine Parsonage

"Un saxophone en mouvement"? : Josephine Baker and the primitivist reception of jazz in Paris in the 1920's / Iris Schmeisser

Paul Robeson's British journey / Sean Creighton

Preaching the gospel of the blues : blues evangelists in Britain / Roberta Freund Schwartz

Whose "Rock Island line"? : originality in the composition of blues and British skiffle / Bob Groom

The blues blueprint : the blues in the music of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin / Rupert Till

"The blues is the truth" : the blues, modernity, and the British blues boom / Leighton Grist

Lowland blues : the reception of African American blues and gospel music in the Netherlands / Guido van Rijn

The blues in France / Robert Springer

Cultural displacement, cultural creation : African American jazz musicians in Europe from Bechet to Braxton / Christopher G. Bakriges.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-55562-6

9786612555626

1-60473-547-3

OCLC:

630107738