The Music of Black Americans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Music of Black Americans write by Eileen Southern. This book was released on 1997. The Music of Black Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning with the arrival of the first Africans in the English colonies, Eileen Southern weaves a fascinating narrative of intense musical activity. As singers, players, and composers, black American musicians are fully chronicled in this landmark book. Now in the third edition, the author has brought the entire text up to date and has added a wealth of new material covering the latest developments in gospel, blues, jazz, classical, crossover, Broadway, and rap as they relate to African American music.
The Music of Black Americans
The Music of Black Americans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Music of Black Americans write by Eileen Southern. This book was released on 1983. The Music of Black Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A narrative history of the music of African-Americans with emphasis on the folk music genres.
Lining Out the Word
Lining Out the Word - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lining Out the Word write by William T. Dargan. This book was released on 2006-06-27. Lining Out the Word available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 kinds—from gospel to soul to jazz. "Lining out," also called Dr. Watts hymn singing, refers to hymns sung to a limited selection of familiar tunes, intoned a line at a time by a leader and taken up in turn by the congregation. From its origins in seventeenth-century England to the current practice of lining out among some Baptist congregations in the American South today, William Dargan’s study illuminates a unique American music genre in a richly textured narrative that stretches from Isaac Watts to Aretha Franklin and Ornette Coleman. Lining Out the Word traces the history of lining out from the time of slavery, when African American slaves adapted the practice for their own uses, blending it with other music, such as work songs. Dargan explores the role of lining out in worship and pursues the cultural implications of this practice far beyond the limits of the church, showing how African Americans wove African and European elements together to produce a powerful and unique cultural idiom. Drawing from an extraordinary range of sources—including his own fieldwork and oral sources—Dargan offers a compelling new perspective on the emergence of African American music in the United States. Copub: Center for Black Music Research
African American Music
African American Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African American Music write by Mellonee V. Burnim. This book was released on 2014-11-13. African American Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.
Music of the Common Tongue
Music of the Common Tongue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music of the Common Tongue write by Christopher Small. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Music of the Common Tongue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is the major western music of the twentieth century. In showing why this is so, the author presents not only an account of African American music from its origins but also a more general consideration of the nature of the music act and of its function in human life. The two streams of discussion occupy alternate chapters so that each casts light on the other. The author offers also an answer to what the Musical Times called the "seldom posed though glaringly obtrusive" question: "why is it that the music of an alienated, oppressed, often persecuted black minority should have made so powerful an impact on the entire industrialized world, whatever the color of its skin or economic status?"
