Despite the influence of African American music and study as a worldwide phenomenon, no comprehensive and fully annotated reference tool currently exists that covers the wide range of genres. This much needed bibliography fills an important gap in this research area and will prove an indispensable resource for librarians and scholars studying African American music and culture.
This book covers a range of styles within RandB, including boogie-woogie, Doo-Wop, jump blues, and 12-bar blues, Motown soul, 70s funk, urban contemporary, and hip hop soul.
By the time “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now),” featuring rapper Freedom Williams—who had previously recorded with Grace Jones and New Kids on the Block—became an international hit in 1990, they had honed their formula to ...
Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Funk, and Rap
Connecting classic rhythm & blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic soul and funk to the Black Power Movement, The Hip Hop Movement critically explores what each of these musics and movements contributed to rap, neo ...
Probably the most important innovator of this style was Teddy Riley, a young Harlem-born musical prodigy. ... he composed for the Bobby Brown album Don't Be Cruel, and “Off on Your Own” (1988) from the Al B. Sure album In Effect Mode.
The essays contained in this volume address some of the most visible, durable and influential of African American musical styles as they developed from the mid-1960s into the 21st-century.
The book spans from the early work of James Brown (the Godfather of Funk) through today, covering funky soul (Stevie Wonder, the Temptations), so-called "black rock" (Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Isley Brothers), jazz-funk ...
From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down," this passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of black music in the last fifty years, and in doing so outlines the perilous ...
... Second edition (2009) Bryan R. Simms Leonard Bernstein (2001) Paul F. Laird Johannes Brahms, Second edition (2011) Heather Platt Benjamin Britten (1996) Peter J. Hodgson William Byrd, Second edition (2005) Richard Turbet Elliott ...
284 (Nov 2013): 26. GEORGE A. MOONOOGIAN Obituaries: BM395. Kochakian, Dan; Goldberg, Marv; LeBlanc, Eric; Watson, Tony. “Obituaries: George A. Moonoogian.” Blues & Rhythm no. 277 (Mar 2013): 12. AARON MOORE BM396. Fontenot, Robert.