African American Music: An Introduction is a collection of thirty essays by leading scholars whch survey major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. The work brings together, in a single volume, treatments of African American music that have existed largely independent of each other. The research is based in large part on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, while interpreting their narratives through a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. The book is replete with references to seminal recordings and recording artists, musical transcriptions, photographs, and illustrations that bring the music to life as expressions of human beings. At the same time, it includes the kind of musical specificity that brings clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify the music of African-Americans.
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Mellonee V. Burnim is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Adjunct Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University.
Portia K. Maultsby is Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Adjunct Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, and Director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University.
Portia K. Maultsby is Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Adjunct Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, and Director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University.
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Beginning wich descriptions of African music-making during che seventeenth century recorded by casual observers, the study of African-derived musics in the United States has evolved into a dynamic area of scholarly investigation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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African American, New York, United States, New Orleans, World War, Los Angeles, West Coast, Bessie Smith, James Brown, Civil Rights Movement, Happy Day, Sweet Honey, Berry Gordy, Mahalia Jackson, Civil War, Lucie Campbell, Aretha Franklin, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, George Clinton, Louis Armstrong, Derrick May, East Coast, Isaac Hayes, Will Marion Cook New!
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