Discusses modern jazz movements and musicians, including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, and Sun-Ra.
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Follow Bebop the cat on a journey through American music history. Every record takes Bebop to a different colorful sonic world. A unique visual poem, Black Music Is was written by an award-wining Poet Laureate.
brother , Elder Willie James Campbell , pastored St. James ; he had inherited this responsibility following the untimely death of their father , who had founded the church decades earlier . Elder Campbell's nephew manned the B - 3 ...
In this collection of essays, interviews, and profiles, William Banfield reflects on his life as an musician and educator, weaving together pieces of cultural criticism that pay homage to artists who have created and sustained Black music ...
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 ...
Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is among the first books to examine music studies reform through the lens of African American music, as well as the emergent field of consciousness studies.
... rituals and ceremonies have taken place in secret societies, many of which are derived from their counterparts in Africa. The Cuban Abakuá secret society is one such example. Ivor Miller (2009) traces and recounts the history of ...
Another big seller was Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage, which must have been slower to take off since it never made the charts. Like the title cut from The Sidewinder, used as background music for a Chrysler television spot, ...
Words alone will not do justice to any of the music described in this book. An enhanced CD containing audio examples of the featured music styles is included to allow your students to hear the music in the lessons.
Probes the principal contradiction in the jazz world: that between black artistry on the one hand and white ownership of the means of jazz distribution -- the recording companies, booking...