African American Music; An Introduction

Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby, Editiors

ISBN 10: 0415941385 / ISBN 13: 9780415941389

Edité par Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, New York, NY, 2006

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Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, New York. 2006. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 707 pp 4to. This is a collection of thirty essays by leading scholars which survey major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. This 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 cultured mosaic of history and culture. A clean very presentable copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: African American Music; An Introduction
• Éditeur: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0415941385
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780415941389
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Civil Rights/African-American Items
  • Revolutionary War/Early America
  • Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

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.