Music of the African Diaspora – serie
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California Soul
Music of African Americans in the West
Av Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Eddie S. Meadows
Häftad, 1998
500 kr
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This new series, co-sponsored with The Center for Black Music Research of Columbia College, seeks to increase our understanding of black music genres and their importance to the cultures of the Atlantic world, including their influence on African musical styles. Books in the series will examine the …
William Grant Still
A Study in Contradictions
Häftad, 2000
455 kr
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During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still (1895-1978) was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers." He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood; major symphony orchestras performed his concert works; and an opera, written in collaboration with Langston Hughes, …
Harlem in Montmartre
A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars
Inbunden, 2001
429 kr
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During the years between the world wars, a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians left the United States and settled in Paris, creating a vibrant expatriate musical scene and introducing jazz to the French. While the Harlem Renaissance was taking off across the Atlantic, …
Jazz on the Road
Don Albert's Musical LIfe
Häftad, 2001
394 kr
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Christopher Wilkinson uncovers a fascinating and unexplored side of American musical and social history in this richly detailed account of Don Albert's musical career and the multicultural forces that influenced it. Albert was born Albert Dominque in New Orleans in 1908. Wilkinson discusses his …
What Is This Thing Called Jazz?
African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
Av Eric Porter
Häftad, 2002
315 kr
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Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric …
Lining Out the Word
Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans
Inbunden, 2006
733 kr
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This book, a milestone in American music scholarship, is the first to take a close look at an important and little-studied component of African American music, one that has roots in Europe, but was adapted by African American congregations and went on to have a profound influence on music of all …
Dead Man Blues
Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West
Av Phil Pastras
Häftad, 2003
470 kr
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When Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast with the nostalgia of a man recalling a golden age, a lost Eden. He had arrived in Los Angeles more …
Race Music
Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop
Häftad, 2004
271 kr
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This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family …
Amazing Bud Powell
Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop
Inbunden, 2013
315 kr
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Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century's most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds. His expansive musicianship, riveting performances, and inventive compositions expanded the bebop idiom and pushed jazz musicians …
From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz
Häftad, 2006
446 kr
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This book explores the complexity of Cuban dance music and the webs that connect it, musically and historically, to other Caribbean music, to salsa, and to Latin Jazz. Establishing a scholarly foundation for the study of this music, Raul A. Fernandez introduces a set of terms, definitions, and …
Music and Revolution
Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba
Häftad, 2006
315 kr
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Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to the policies that have shaped artistic life. Robin D. Moore gives readers a chronological overview of the first decades after the Cuban Revolution, …
Mek Some Noise
Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad
Häftad, 2007
382 kr
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"Mek Some Noise", Timothy Rommen's ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation's Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity. By …
Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.
First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy
Av Alton Augustus Sir Adams, Mark Clague
Inbunden, 2008
530 kr
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Alton Augustus Adams, Sr., was a musician, writer, hotelier, and the first black bandmaster of the United States Navy. Born in the Virgin Islands in 1889, Adams joined the U.S. military in 1917. Although naval policy at the time restricted blacks to menial jobs, Adams and his all-black ensemble …
Different Drummers
Rhythm and Race in the Americas
Av Martin Munro
Inbunden, 2010
940 kr
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Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro's groundbreaking work traces the central - and contested - role of music in shaping identities, politics, social …
Different Drummers
Rhythm and Race in the Americas
Av Martin Munro
Häftad, 2010
288 kr
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Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro's groundbreaking work traces the central - and contested - role of music in shaping identities, politics, social …
Funky Nassau
Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music
Inbunden, 2011
1190 kr
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This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands' location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and …
Funky Nassau
Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music
Häftad, 2011
456 kr
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This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands' location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and …
Digging
The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
Av Amiri Baraka
Häftad, 2009
227 kr
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For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and …
Blowin' the Blues Away
Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene
Inbunden, 2012
940 kr
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New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before. "Blowin' the Blues Away" examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence in the 1980s. Using interviews, in-person observation, and …
Blowin' the Blues Away
Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene
Häftad, 2012
404 kr
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New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before. "Blowin' the Blues Away" examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence in the 1980s. Using interviews, in-person observation, and …
Jazz Diasporas
Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris
Inbunden, 2016
623 kr
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At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians adopted a variety of strategies …
Jazz Diasporas
Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris
Häftad, 2016
271 kr
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At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians adopted a variety of strategies …
Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels
Häftad, 2017
315 kr
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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental …
La Traviata Affair
Opera in the Age of Apartheid
Av Hilde Roos
Inbunden, 2018
1190 kr
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Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a “coloured” cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The La Traviata Affair charts Eoan’s opera activities from the group’s inception in 1933 until the …
La Traviata Affair
Opera in the Age of Apartheid
Av Hilde Roos
Häftad, 2018
315 kr
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Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a “coloured” cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The La Traviata Affair charts Eoan’s opera activities from the group’s inception in 1933 until the …
