Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe (American Made Music Series) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1604735465 ISBN 13: 9781604735468

Verlag: University Press of Mississippi, 2010

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Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe edited by Neil A. Wynn with contributions from Christopher G. Bakriges, Sean Creighton, Jeffrey Green, Leighton Grist, Bob Groom, Rainer E. Lotz, Paul Oliver, Catherine Parsonage, Iris Schmeisser, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Robert Springer, Rupert Till, Guido van Rijn, David Webster, and Neil A. Wynn 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 document little-known performances and recordings of African American musicians in Europe. Several pieces, including one by Paul Oliver, focus on the appeal of the blues to British listeners. At the same time, these considerations often reveal the ambiguous nature of European responses to black music and in so doing add to our knowledge of transatlantic race relations. Neil A. Wynn is professor of twentieth-century American history at the University of Gloucestershire.

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Essays analyzing the impact of African American music and its European reverberations

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• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1604735465
• ISBN 13: 9781604735468
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 306
• Herausgeber: Wynn Neil A.