African American Music: An Introduction - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415881803 ISBN 13: 9780415881807

Verlag: Routledge, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music.

The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.

Biografía del autor:

Mellonee V. Burnim is Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University

Portia K. Maultsby is Laura Boulton Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Adjunct Professor Emerita of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0415881803
• ISBN 13: 9780415881807
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 466
• Herausgeber: Burnim Mellonee V., Maultsby Portia K.