| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"As a complement to this work, readers may wish to consult the unparalleled recent bibliographic series by John Gray, The Black Music Reference Series (African Diaspora Press)"--Foreword. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and indexes. |
| Summary |
"The Transformation of Black Music situates black musics within the broader cultural, political, social, and historical frameworks of the last millennium. It focuses on the dynamic musical practices that have emerged, morphed, and influenced each other in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora. The authors weave significant findings on black music with their own ethnographic and musical accounts in order to craft a narrative that (1) reflects the musical phenomena generated, in part, by forced migration and (2) addresses the longitudinal implications of these phenomena for musicological and cultural discourse. The Transformation of Black Music employs the critical lens of "Call/Response," which was coined by Samuel A. Floyd Jr. to explain the dissemination of African musics and the return of Diasporic musics to Africa over a wide swath of time. Consequently, black musics are first viewed and interpreted against the backdrop of the Diaspora's formation and then considered as integral components of expressive gestures and practices made by people of the Diaspora, especially since the nineteenth century. The book examines a full spectrum of black musics and covers topics, such as classical musicians of African descent, previously marginalized in mainstream musico-historical accounts. Moreover, the book presents information gathered from disparate sources that, when synthesized, highlights the interrelationship of musical practices formerly associated with specific eras and regions. By chronicling historical trajectories of black musical practices, The Transformation of Black Music showcases the value of black musics and the relevance of black music research to all musical endeavors."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Melanie Zeck -- Preface / Samuel A. Floyd Jr. and Melanie Zeck -- Introduction -- Black music and the African Diaspora. Out of Africa: setting sail from the motherland -- The making of the African Diaspora: ships on the oceans -- The Diaspora's concert worlds: Europe and the Americas -- Isles of rhythm: the Cinquillo-Tresillo Complex in the Circum-Caribbean -- Ties that bind: myth and ritual in the Circum-Caribbean and beyond -- Case studies. "Pip's tambourine": black music and Sterling Stuckey's revelations of Herman Melville's hidden sources -- "Git on board, lil' chillun": children and music in the Diaspora / (by Melanie Zeck) -- The movement: black identities and the paths forward -- Afro-modernism and music: on science, community, and magic in the black avant-garde / (by Guthrie Ramsey Jr.) -- Africa and the trope of the return -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Excerpt from "Ring shout!: literary studies, historical studies, and black music inquiry" -- Appendix B: Figures and institutions from the "first black renaissance." |
| Access |
Concurrent user access: 1 user |
| Subject |
Black people -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Black people -- Music. |
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Africans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Africans. |
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Music. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Zeck, Melanie, author.
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Ramsey, Guthrie P., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Floyd, Samuel A., Jr., 1937-2016. Transformation of black music. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] 9780195307245 (DLC) 2016021235 (OCoLC)951094446 |
| ISBN |
9780190651305 (electronic book) |
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019065130X (electronic book) |
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9780190651282 (electronic book) |
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0190651288 (electronic book) |
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9780195307245 (hardcover) |
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0195307240 (hardcover) |
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