| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
American made music series
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American made music series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"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 1920s / 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. |
| Summary |
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 essays doc. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Europe -- Music -- History and criticism.
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African Americans. |
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Europe. |
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Music. |
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African Americans -- Music -- Influence.
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Popular music -- Europe -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music. |
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MUSIC -- Ethnomusicology. |
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Popular music. |
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Blues. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Music.
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Music.
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| Added Author |
Wynn, Neil A., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cross the water blues. 1st ed. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007 9781578069606 (DLC) 2007004256 (OCoLC)82367803 |
| ISBN |
9781604735475 (electronic book) |
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1604735473 (electronic book) |
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9781578069606 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1578069602 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1282555626 |
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9781282555624 |
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9786612555626 |
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6612555629 |
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