- Paperback: 736 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; New Ed edition (October 23, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415941385
- ISBN-13: 978-0415941389
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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