03604nam 2200745Ia 450 991046581670332120200520144314.00-19-802437-197866105267961-4294-0641-01-280-52679-31-280-53503-297866105350330-19-510975-9(CKB)2560000000296412(EBL)273151(OCoLC)466431378(SSID)ssj0000225316(PQKBManifestationID)12044709(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000225316(PQKBWorkID)10230154(PQKB)10480278(SSID)ssj0000306597(PQKBManifestationID)11226550(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306597(PQKBWorkID)10298175(PQKB)11499200(StDuBDS)EDZ0000034515(MiAaPQ)EBC273151(MiAaPQ)EBC5121561(Au-PeEL)EBL273151(CaPaEBR)ebr10278036(CaONFJC)MIL52679(EXLCZ)99256000000029641219940103d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe power of Black music[electronic resource] interpreting its history from Africa to the United States /Samuel A. Floyd, JrNew York Oxford University Pressc19951 online resource (421 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-508235-4 0-19-985324-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-295), discography (p. 297-304), filmography (p. 305), and index.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) Symbol11: Implications and ConclusionsAppendix; Printed Works Cited; Sound Recordings Cited; Films and Videotapes Cited; Index; FootnotesWhen 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 inAfrican AmericansMusicHistory and criticismMusicUnited StatesHistory and criticismElectronic books.African AmericansMusicHistory and criticism.MusicHistory and criticism.780.8996073781.6296073Floyd Samuel A628646MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465816703321The power of Black music2117901UNINA