African American Music: An Introduction
- ISBN-10
- 0028602943
- ISBN-13
- 9780028602943
- Series
- African American Music
- Category
- Music / Individual Composer & Musician
- Pages
- 380
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Schirmer Books
- Author
- Earl L. Stewart
Description
African American Music provides an introduction to all of the richness and diversity of African American musical styles, focusing on the distinct characte4istics and development of each genre. This book is divided into four parts: folk traditions; the jazz aesthetic; black popular styles since 1940; and black theatrical and classical music. Using brief musical examples, the author illustrates and explains the basic concepts that unite all African American styles before discussing each style individually. Among the many types of music explored in individual chapters are spirituals, blues, gospel, ragtime, jazz, pop and classical. Biographical portraits of major musicians and composers, as well as detailed stylistic analyses of each musical genre, make this book not only required reading for any introduction to the field, but a pleasure to read for anyone interested in all of the different styles that comprise African American music. Includes information on Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, bebop, Chuck Berry, blues, boogie woogie, James Brown, call and response, classical music, classic jazz, Sam Cooke, cool jazz, William Levi Dawson, doo wop, Antonin Dvorak, Duke Ellington, free jazz, gospel music, Isaac Hayes, jazz, James Weldon Johnson, Motown Records, Charlie Parker, rags and ragtime, rap music, rhythm and blues, soul music, spirituals, swing, etc. [Publisher description]
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 1996
- 168 pages
- Paperback
- Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing
Similar books
-
Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music
By Burton William Peretti, Jacqueline M Moore, Nina MjagkijPrince Rogers Nelson, in fact, never left Minneapolis, where a small tradition of blues and R & B gave him all of the inspiration he needed. Capturing a major record deal in his early twenties, Prince spent months in the recording ...
-
The Story of African American Music
By Andrew PinaJazz, rap, funk, R&B, and even techno have roots in African American culture. This volume chronicles the history of African American music, with spotlights on influential black musicians of the past and present.
-
African American Musical Heritage: An Appreciation, Historical Summary, and Guide to Music Fundamentals
By Lenard C. BowieLENARD C. BOWIE, DMA ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, RETIRED THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE , FLORIDA Dr. Lenard C. Bowie has developed an enviable reputation as a consummate musician.
-
Encyclopedia of African American Music [3 volumes]
By Tammy L. Kernodle, Emmett G. Price III, Horace Maxilepessimistic, concluding that the Gribble, Lusk, and York trio formed the last remaining black string band ... Joe Thompson continues to perform string band styles he learned from older relatives in the North Carolina Piedmont area.
-
The Music in African American Fiction: Representing Music in African American Fiction
By Robert H. CataliottiLomax states that the recording trip, which included himself, Hurston and New York University Professor Miss Mary Elizabeth Barnicle, had moved through Georgia and Florida. Lomax also states that although Hurston was unable to travel to ...
-
Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation
By Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. MaultsbyBringing together the viewpoints of ethnomusicologists, historians, and performers, these essays cover topics including the music industry, women and gender, and music as resistance, and explore the stories of music creators and their ...
-
Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe
By Neil A. WynnContributions from Christopher G. Bakriges, Sean Creighton, Jeffrey Green, Leighton Grist, Bob Groom, Rainer E. Lotz, Paul Oliver, Catherine Parsonage, Iris Schmeisser, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Robert Springer, Rupert Till, Guido van Rijn, ...
-
African American Musicians
By Claudette HegelAfrican-American Musicians tells the stories of figures such as bluesman Robert Johnson, whose guitar playing was so extraordinary that people said he must have made a deal with the devil; jazz great Duke Ellington, considered one of ...
-
Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology
Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler: The Life and Times of a Piano Virtuoso Beth Abelson Macleod Cybersonic Arts: ... Burleigh: From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance Jean E. Snyder Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties ...
-
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
By Samuel A. Floyd Jr.Bergman, Peter. 1969. The chronological history of the Negro in America. New York: Harper & Row. Berlin, Edward A. 1980. Ragtime: A musical and cultural history. Berkeley: University of California Press. Berry, Jason. 1988.