ISBN:
9781604735475
,
1604735473
,
1282555626
,
9781282555624
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
American made music series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
780.89/9607304
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
MUSIC / Ethnomusicology
;
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues
;
Zwarten
;
Blues
;
Jazz
;
Blues
;
Blues
;
Musik
;
Schwarze. USA
;
African Americans Music
;
History and criticism
;
African Americans Music Influence
;
Popular music History and criticism
;
Rezeption
;
Musik
;
Schwarze
;
Popmusik
;
Europa
;
USA
;
Europa
;
Europa
;
Popmusik
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Musik
;
Rezeption
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
"Why I sing the blues" : African American culture in the transatlantic world / Neil A. Wynn -- Taking the measure of the blues / Paul Oliver -- Even philosophers get the blues : feeling bad for no reason / David Webster -- Spirituals to (nearly) swing, 1873-1938 / Jeffrey Green -- Black music prior to the first world war : American origins and German perspectives / Rainer E. Lotz -- Fascination and fear : responses to early jazz in Britain / Catherine Parsonage -- "Un saxophone en mouvement"? : Josephine Baker and the primitivist reception of jazz in Paris in the 1920s / Iris Schmeisser -- Paul Robeson's British journey / Sean Creighton -- Preaching the gospel of the blues : blues evangelists in Britain / Roberta Freund Schwartz -- Whose "Rock Island line"? : originality in the composition of blues and British skiffle / Bob Groom -- The blues blueprint : the blues in the music of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin / Rupert Till -- "The blues is the truth" : the blues, modernity, and the British blues boom / Leighton Grist -- Lowland blues : the reception of African American blues and gospel music in the Netherlands / Guido van Rijn -- The blues in France / Robert Springer -- Cultural displacement, cultural creation : African American jazz musicians in Europe from Bechet to Braxton / Christopher G. Bakriges
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This unique collection of essays examines the flow of African American music and musicians across the Atlantic to Europe from the time of slavery to the twentieth century. In a sweeping examination of different musical forms--spirituals, blues, jazz, skiffle, and orchestral music--the contributors consider the reception and influence of black music on a number of different European audiences, particularly in Britain, but also France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The essayists approach the subject through diverse historical, musicological, and philosophical perspectives. A number of essays doc
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