African American Music

  • African American Music: Grove Music Essentials
    African American Music: Grove Music Essentials
    By Guthrie P. Ramsey

    As the decades progressed, innovators such as Rosetta Tharpe, James Cleveland, Edwin and Walter Hawkins, and Albertina “Twinkie” Clark, among others, built on the earlier contributions of pioneers Lucie Campbell, Willie Mae Ford Smith, ...

  • African American Music: An Introduction
    African American Music: An Introduction
    By Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby

    Soul music Gospel-influenced African American popular music style that began to emerge in the late 1950s and became ... The Electric Guitar From the earliest days, blues guitarists sought to increase their instrument's volume in order ...

  • African American Music: An Introduction
    African American Music: An Introduction
    By Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby

    With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured ...

  • African American Music: An Introduction
    African American Music: An Introduction
    By Earl L. Stewart

    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...

  • African American Music: A Philosophical Look at African American Music in Society
    African American Music: A Philosophical Look at African American Music in Society
    By Ursula Broschke-Davis, Nathan Tate Davis

    African American Music: A Philosophical Look at African American Music in Society

  • African American Music: A Chronology : 1619-1995
    African American Music: A Chronology : 1619-1995
    By Hansonia LaVerne Caldwell

    African American Music: A Chronology : 1619-1995