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
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| Titolo: |
The power of Black music : interpreting its history from Africa to the United States / / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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