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



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Autore: Floyd Samuel A Visualizza persona
Titolo: The power of Black music : interpreting its history from Africa to the United States / / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, c1995
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (421 p.)
Disciplina: 780.8996073
781.6296073
Soggetto topico: African Americans - Music - History and criticism
Music - United States - History and criticism
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
Titolo autorizzato: The power of Black music  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-802437-1
9786610526796
1-4294-0641-0
1-280-52679-3
1-280-53503-2
9786610535033
0-19-510975-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996247990503316
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