03889nam 2200625Ia 450 991079259110332120230721015912.01-282-55562-697866125556261-60473-547-3(CKB)2670000000019412(EBL)534345(OCoLC)630107738(SSID)ssj0000415183(PQKBManifestationID)11297084(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415183(PQKBWorkID)10409890(PQKB)11349551(MiAaPQ)EBC534345(MdBmJHUP)muse13612(Au-PeEL)EBL534345(CaPaEBR)ebr10389881(EXLCZ)99267000000001941220070130d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCross the water blues[electronic resource] African American music in Europe /edited by Neil A. Wynn1st ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippi20071 online resource (302 p.)American made music seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-57806-960-2 Includes bibliographical references and index."Why I sing the blues" : African American culture in the transatlantic world / Neil A. Wynn -- Taking the measure of the blues / Paul Oliver -- Even philosophers get the blues : feeling bad for no reason / David Webster -- Spirituals to (nearly) swing, 1873-1938 / Jeffrey Green -- Black music prior to the first world war : American origins and German perspectives / Rainer E. Lotz -- Fascination and fear : responses to early jazz in Britain / Catherine Parsonage -- "Un saxophone en mouvement"? : Josephine Baker and the primitivist reception of jazz in Paris in the 1920's / Iris Schmeisser -- Paul Robeson's British journey / Sean Creighton -- Preaching the gospel of the blues : blues evangelists in Britain / Roberta Freund Schwartz -- Whose "Rock Island line"? : originality in the composition of blues and British skiffle / Bob Groom -- The blues blueprint : the blues in the music of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin / Rupert Till -- "The blues is the truth" : the blues, modernity, and the British blues boom / Leighton Grist -- Lowland blues : the reception of African American blues and gospel music in the Netherlands / Guido van Rijn -- The blues in France / Robert Springer -- Cultural displacement, cultural creation : African American jazz musicians in Europe from Bechet to Braxton / Christopher G. Bakriges.This unique collection of essays examines the flow of African American music and musicians across the Atlantic to Europe from the time of slavery to the twentieth century. In a sweeping examination of different musical forms--spirituals, blues, jazz, skiffle, and orchestral music--the contributors consider the reception and influence of black music on a number of different European audiences, particularly in Britain, but also France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The essayists approach the subject through diverse historical, musicological, and philosophical perspectives. A number of essaysAmerican made music series.African AmericansMusicInfluenceAfrican AmericansEuropeMusicHistory and criticismPopular musicEuropeHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansInfluence.African AmericansMusicHistory and criticism.Popular musicHistory and criticism.781.64309Wynn Neil A1500168MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792591103321Cross the water blues3726725UNINA