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The Power of Black Music
Interpreting its History from Africa to the United States
Inbunden, 1995
1035 kr
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Floyd has written a path-breaking book on the development of African-American music and its influence in America. He shows how African myths and ritual - especially the "ring-shout" dances that were ubiquitous in West Africa - have underlain the development of all black music in America. It puts …
The Power of Black Music
Interpreting its History from Africa to the United States
Häftad, 1997
435 kr
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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 illuminates the centuries-old linkage between the music, myths and …
Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance
A Collection of Essays
Inbunden, 1990
1241 kr
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By the mid-1920s, the Harlem Renaissance was underway. As an effort to secure economic, social, and cultural equality with white citizens, the Renaissance years were a proving period for black composers and performers. Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance explores black music in the United States …
