Title
- Music Of The African Diaspora ; 7
Attribution
Guthrie P. Ramsey, JrPublication Details
BookUniversity of California Press2003Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML3556 .R32 2003 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Deeply informed by Ramsey’s experience as an accomplished musician, a sophisticated cultural theorist, and an enthusiast brought up in the community he discusses, Race Music explores the global influence and popularity of African American music, its social relevance, and key questions regarding its interpretation and criticism. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- 1. Daddy’s Second Line: Toward a Cultural Poetics of Race Music
- 2. Disciplining Black Music: On History, Memory, and Contemporary Theories
- 3. "It’s Just the Blues": Race, Entertainment, and the Blues Muse
- 4. "It Just Stays With Me All of the Time": Collective Memory, Community Theater, and the Ethnographic Truth
- 5. "We Called Ourselves Modern": Race Music and the Politics and Practice of Afro-Modernism at Midcentury
- 6. "Goin’ to Chicago": Memories, Histories, and a Little Bit of Soul
- 7. Scoring a Black Nation: Music, Film, and Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop
- 8. "Santa Claus Ain’t Got Nothing on This!": Hip-Hop Hybridity and the Black Church Muse
- Epilogue: "Do You Want it on Your Black-Eyed Peas?"
ISBN
- 0520210484
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