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African American music : an introduction / edited by Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Second editionDescription: xv, 465 pages : $b illustrations, music ; $c 26 cm + $e 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)Content type:
  • text
  • performed music
Media type:
  • unmediated
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • volume
  • audio disc
ISBN:
  • 9780415881807
  • 9780415881814
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780.89/96073 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3556 .A34 2015
Contents:
The translated African cultural and musical past / Portia K. Maultsby -- African American instrument construction and music making / Ernest Brown -- Secular folk music / Dena Epstein w/ Rosita Sands -- Spirituals / Mellonee Burnim -- Quartets / Joyce Jackson -- Ragtime / Ingebord Harer -- Blues / David Evans -- Art/classical music / Josephine Wright -- Jazz / Ingrid Monson -- Gospel / Mellonee Burnim -- Musical theater / Thomas Riis -- Rhythm and blues, R&B / Portia K. Maultsby -- Soul / Portia K. Maultsby -- Funk / Portia K. Maultsby -- Disco and house / Kai Fikentscher -- Detroit techno / Denise Dalphond -- Hip-hop and rap / Dawn Norfleet.
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Book Book Vermont Jazz Center Book Collection Archive Room ML3556.A34 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Eugene Uman Collection 39088000001473

"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 a new audio CD bring the music to life"--Back cover.

"CD listening examples": page xiv-xv.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-425), discography (pages 426-438), videography (pages 439-442), and index.

The translated African cultural and musical past / Portia K. Maultsby -- African American instrument construction and music making / Ernest Brown -- Secular folk music / Dena Epstein w/ Rosita Sands -- Spirituals / Mellonee Burnim -- Quartets / Joyce Jackson -- Ragtime / Ingebord Harer -- Blues / David Evans -- Art/classical music / Josephine Wright -- Jazz / Ingrid Monson -- Gospel / Mellonee Burnim -- Musical theater / Thomas Riis -- Rhythm and blues, R&B / Portia K. Maultsby -- Soul / Portia K. Maultsby -- Funk / Portia K. Maultsby -- Disco and house / Kai Fikentscher -- Detroit techno / Denise Dalphond -- Hip-hop and rap / Dawn Norfleet.

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