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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792231903321

Autore

Floyd Samuel A

Titolo

The power of Black music [[electronic resource] ] : interpreting its history from Africa to the United States / / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1995

ISBN

0-19-802437-1

9786610526796

1-4294-0641-0

1-280-52679-3

1-280-53503-2

9786610535033

0-19-510975-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (421 p.)

Disciplina

780.8996073

781.6296073

Soggetti

African Americans - Music - History and criticism

Music - United States - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-295), discography (p. 297-304), filmography (p. 305), and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1: African Music, Religion, and Narrative; 2: Transformations; 3: Syncretization and Synthesis: Folk and Written Traditions; 4: African-American Modernism, Signifyin(g), and Black Music; 5: The Negro Renaissance: Harlem and Chicago Flowerings; 6: Transitions: Function and Difference in Myth and Ritual; 7: Continuity and Discontinuity: The Fifties; 8: The Sixties and After; 9: Troping the Blues: From Spirituals to the Concert Hall; 10: The Object of Call-Response: The Signifyin(g) Symbol

11: Implications and ConclusionsAppendix; Printed Works Cited; Sound Recordings Cited; Films and Videotapes Cited; Index; Footnotes

Sommario/riassunto

When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping  version of ""The Star Spangled Banner,"" he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of



Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues traditionbefore him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied ""talking"" guitar passage and inserted calls and responses at key points in the musical narrative, Hendrix's performance of the national anthem also hearkened back to a tradition even older than the blues, a traditionrooted in