Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music (Music/Culture) - Softcover

Small, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819563579 ISBN 13: 9780819563576

Verlag: Wesleyan University Press, 1999

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"A magnificent book about Afro-American music and its impact on western culture." --Race and Class "A real gem: deeply committed, pesuasively argued and imbued throughout with a love and understanding of the music."--The Wire "Essential for anyone interested in obtaining another perspective on the aesthetics of African-American music and hot it relates to culture." --The Black Perspective in Music "Christopher Small has written a magnificent book about Afro-American music and its impact on western culture. He totally fulfills his aim of showing that black American music has become of far greater human significance than any superficial assessment of classically-oriented evaluation would allow."--Race and Class

Reseña del editor:

In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is the major western music of the twentieth century. In showing why this is so, the author presents not only an account of African American music from its origins but also a more general consideration of the nature of the music act and of its function in human life. The two streams of discussion occupy alternate chapters so that each casts light on the other. The author offers also an answer to what the Musical Times called the "seldom posed though glaringly obtrusive" question: "why is it that the music of an alienated, oppressed, often persecuted black minority should have made so powerful an impact on the entire industrialized world, whatever the color of its skin or economic status?"

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• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0819563579
• ISBN 13: 9780819563576
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 509