ISBN:
0195082354
Language:
English
Pages:
316 S
,
Notenbeisp
,
25 cm
DDC:
780/.89/96073
Keywords:
African Americans Music
;
History and criticism
;
Music History and criticism
;
Music
;
Afrika
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Musik
;
Geschichte 1890-1994
;
Afroamerikanische Musik
Abstract:
Bold and original, 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 brilliantly illuminates the centuries-old linkage between the music, myths, and rituals of Africa and the continuing evolution and enduring vitality of African-American music. Inspired by the pioneering work of Sterling Stuckey and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., advocates a new critical approach grounded in the forms and traditions of the music itself. He accompanies readers on a fascinating journey from the African ring, through the ring shout's powerful merging of music and dance in the slave culture, to the funeral parade practices of the early New Orleans jazzmen, the bluesmen in the twenties, the beboppers in the forties, and the free jazz, rock, Motown, and concert hall composers of the sixties and beyond
Abstract:
Floyd dismisses the assumption that Africans brought to the United States as slaves took the music of whites in the New World and transformed it through their own performance practices. Instead, he recognizes European influences, while demonstrating how much black music has continued to share with its African counterparts. Floyd maintains that while African Americans may not have direct knowledge of African traditions and myths, they can intuitively recognize links to an authentic African cultural memory
Abstract:
Bold and original, 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 brilliantly illuminates the centuries-old linkage between the music, myths, and rituals of Africa and the continuing evolution and enduring vitality of African-American music. Inspired by the pioneering work of Sterling Stuckey and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., advocates a new critical approach grounded in the forms and traditions of the music itself. He accompanies readers on a fascinating journey from the African ring, through the ring shout's powerful merging of music and dance in the slave culture, to the funeral parade practices of the early New Orleans jazzmen, the bluesmen in the twenties, the beboppers in the forties, and the free jazz, rock, Motown, and concert hall composers of the sixties and beyond
Abstract:
Floyd dismisses the assumption that Africans brought to the United States as slaves took the music of whites in the New World and transformed it through their own performance practices. Instead, he recognizes European influences, while demonstrating how much black music has continued to share with its African counterparts. Floyd maintains that while African Americans may not have direct knowledge of African traditions and myths, they can intuitively recognize links to an authentic African cultural memory
Description / Table of Contents:
1. African Music, Religion, and Narrative -- 2. Transformations -- 3. Syncretization and Synthesis: Folk and Written Traditions -- 4. African-American Modernism, Signifyin(g), and Black Music -- 5. The Negro Renaissance: Harlem and Chicago Flowerings -- 6. Transitions: Function and Difference in Myth and Ritual -- 7. Continuity and Discontinuity: The Fifties -- 8. The Sixties and After -- 9. Troping the Blues: From Spirituals to the Concert Hall -- 10. The Object of Call-Response: The Signifyin(g) Symbol -- 11. Implications and Conclusions.
Description / Table of Contents:
Literaturverz., Discogr. und Filmogr. S. 281 - 305
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-295), discography (p. 297-304), filmography (p. 305), and index
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