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B Jenkins
Av Fred Moten
Häftad, 2010
282 kr
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The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet’s mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, …
Meaning of Soul
Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s
Häftad, 2020
297 kr
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In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices-inventive cover versions, falsetto vocals, ad-libs, and false …
Beyond Exoticism
Western Music and the World
Häftad, 2007
398 kr
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In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such …
Soul Covers
Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)
Häftad, 2007
579 kr
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Soul Covers is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers-Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow-used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and personal authenticity. Through close readings of song lyrics and the performers’ statements about their …
Selling Sound
The Rise of the Country Music Industry
Häftad, 2007
579 kr
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Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country’s most obvious stylistic hallmarks, Diane Pecknold demonstrates …
Big Ears
Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies
Av Nichole T. Rustin, Sherrie Tucker
Häftad, 2008
456 kr
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In jazz circles, players and listeners with “big ears” hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this interdisciplinary collection explores the terrain opened up by listening, with big ears, for gender in …
Mexican American Mojo
Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
Häftad, 2008
651 kr
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Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican …
Reggaeton
Av Raquel Z. Rivera, Wayne Marshall m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
355 kr
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A hybrid of reggae and rap, reggaeton is a music with Spanish-language lyrics and Caribbean aesthetics that has taken Latin America, the United States, and the world by storm. Superstars-including Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Ivy Queen-garner international attention, while aspiring performers use …
B Jenkins
Av Fred Moten
Inbunden, 2010
1302 kr
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The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet’s mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, …
Segregating Sound
Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
Inbunden, 2010
1456 kr
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In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how …
Segregating Sound
Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
Häftad, 2010
334 kr
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In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how …
Hip Hop Desis
South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness
Häftad, 2010
456 kr
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Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young “hip hop desis” express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense of connection with Blacks as racialized …
African Rhythms
The Autobiography of Randy Weston
Av Randy Weston, Willard Jenkins
Häftad, 2015
359 kr
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The pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the world’s most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose career has spanned five continents and more than six decades. Packed with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms is Weston’s life story, as told by him to the …
Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll
Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock 'n' Soul Eccentrics
Av Jake Austen
Häftad, 2011
398 kr
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For nearly twenty years, the much-beloved music magazine Roctober has featured work by some of the best underground cartoonists, exhaustive examinations of made-up genres such as “robot rock,” and an ongoing exploration of everything Sammy Davis Jr. ever sang, said, or did. But the heart of the …
Musical Echoes
South African Women Thinking in Jazz
Av Carol Ann Muller, Sathima Bea Benjamin
Häftad, 2011
366 kr
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Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band performances. She was especially moved by the voice of …
Buena Vista in the Club
Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana
Inbunden, 2011
1862 kr
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In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetÓn. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon …
Buena Vista in the Club
Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana
Häftad, 2011
456 kr
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In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetÓn. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon …
Birds of Fire
Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion
Häftad, 2011
398 kr
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Birds of Fire brings overdue critical attention to fusion, a musical idiom that emerged as young musicians blended elements of jazz, rock, and funk in the late 1960s and 1970s. At the time, fusion was disparaged by jazz writers and ignored by rock critics. In the years since, it has come to be seen …
Recording Culture
Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains
Häftad, 2012
456 kr
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Recording is central to the musical lives of contemporary powwow singers yet, until now, their aesthetic practices when recording have been virtually ignored in the study of Native American expressive cultures. Recording Culture is an exploration of the Aboriginal music industry and the powwow …
Unfree Masters
Popular Music and the Politics of Work
Av Matt Stahl
Häftad, 2012
398 kr
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The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation. In Unfree Masters Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of creative work. He begins by considering the …
Listening in Detail
Performances of Cuban Music
Inbunden, 2013
1759 kr
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Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music" for ethnographic examination or market …
Listening in Detail
Performances of Cuban Music
Häftad, 2013
340 kr
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Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music" for ethnographic examination or market …
Roll with It
Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans
Inbunden, 2013
1195 kr
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Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These young men are celebrated as cultural icons for upholding the proud traditions of the jazz funeral and the second line parade, yet they remain subject to …
Roll with It
Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans
Häftad, 2013
297 kr
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Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These young men are celebrated as cultural icons for upholding the proud traditions of the jazz funeral and the second line parade, yet they remain subject to …
Political Force of Musical Beauty
Av Barry Shank
Inbunden, 2014
1330 kr
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In The Political Force of Musical Beauty, Barry Shank shows how musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and political force, creating, however fleetingly, a shared sense of the world among otherwise diverse listeners. Rather than focusing on the ways in which music enables the …
Political Force of Musical Beauty
Av Barry Shank
Häftad, 2014
387 kr
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In The Political Force of Musical Beauty, Barry Shank shows how musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and political force, creating, however fleetingly, a shared sense of the world among otherwise diverse listeners. Rather than focusing on the ways in which music enables the …
Negro Soy Yo
Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba
Häftad, 2015
398 kr
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In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways …
Legions of Boom
Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area
Av Oliver Wang
Häftad, 2015
355 kr
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Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc., rocked dance floors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. In Legions of Boom noted music and pop …
Legions of Boom
Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area
Av Oliver Wang
Inbunden, 2015
1485 kr
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Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc., rocked dance floors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. In Legions of Boom noted music and pop …
Real Men Don't Sing
Crooning in American Culture
Inbunden, 2015
1862 kr
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The crooner Rudy VallÉe's soft, intimate, and sensual vocal delivery simultaneously captivated millions of adoring fans and drew harsh criticism from those threatened by his sensitive masculinity. Although VallÉe and other crooners reflected the gender fluidity of late-1920s popular culture, their …
