African American music : an introduction

Author(s)

• Burnim, Mellonee V. (Mellonee Victoria)
• Maultsby, Portia K.

Bibliographic Information

African American music : an introduction

edited by Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby

Routledge, 2015

2nd ed

• : hbk

Note

Discography: p. 426-438

Videography: p. 439-442

Bibliography: p. 404-425

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 new downloadable resources bring the music to life.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Antebellum Formations (1600s-1800s) 1. The Translated African Cultural and Musical Past Portia K. Maultsby 2. African Derived Instruments Ernest Brown 3. Secular Folk Music Dena Epstein w/ Rosita Sands 4. Spirituals Mellonee Burnim Part 2: Post Bellum: Music in Transition (late 1800s-) 5. Quartets Joyce Jackson 6. Ragtime Ingebord Harer 7. Blues David Evans 8. Art/Classical Music Josephine Wright Part 3: Music in Migration: Urban Voices (1900-) 9. Jazz Ingrid Monson 10. Gospel Mellonee Burnim 11. Musical Theater Thomas Riis 12. Rhythm and Blues Portia K. Maultsby 13. Soul Portia K. Maultsby Part 4: Post Civil Rights and Into the New Millenium (1970s-2000s) 14. Funk Portia K. Maultsby 15. Disco and House Kai Fikentscher 16. Detroit Techno Denise Dalphond 17. Hip hop and Rap Dawn Norfleet Glossary Bibliography Discography/Videography Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB18019713
• ISBN:
  • 9780415881807
• LCCN: 2014010247
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 465 p.
• Size: 27 cm.
• Attached Material: 1 CD-ROM (12 cm.)
• Classification:
  • LCC : ML3556
  • DC23 : 780.89/96073
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism