First published in 1970, this work on the art of the French "melodie", is suitable for singers, accompanists and concert-goers alike. The book covers 18 composers, including Berlois, Gounod, Duparc, Chausson, Faure, Debussy, Ravel, Satie and Poulenc. Texts of nearly 200 songs are given in French, and also included are notes on pronunciation, and ...
When Tupac Shakur died in September 1996, he was a star, if a controversial one. Following his death, he has become something else entirely. His posthumously released recordings, films, and books have all been widely successful, but more importantly, he has attained the level of cultural hero. In this study, author Dyson explores how and why this ...
Eight years of inspired work by a committee of more than 30 musicians and pastors, all leaders in African American worship and gospel music, have resulted in this compendium representing the common repertoire of African American churches across the United States.
In this book that is part travelogue and part musical history, Wald traces the roots of the contemporary Latin-American folk music known as corrido. While hitchhiking throughout the southwestern US and Mexico, Wald interviewed singers and fans of this style of music which often explores the lives of drug dealers and other outlaws, and often ...
"The Music of Black Americans" is a comprehensive account of black music through the ages. The author leaves no stone unturned. Southern sets the stage in each section with a detailed chronology of significant historical and cultural events and supplements with commentary, musical scores, and vintage photographs. Extensive reference materials are ...
University professor and 1960s activist Angela Davis's erudite and sweeping examination of the careers of two of the blues' best known interpreters, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, plus the jazz singer Billie Holiday, looks at the roots of the blues' lyrical obsessions with sexuality (this sexuality frequently being the only factor in their ...
The best-selling Motown artist of all time, Marvin Gaye defined the hopes and shattered dreams of an entire generation. Twenty years after his tragic death-he was shot by his father-his relevance persists because of the indelible mark his outsized talent left on American culture. A transcendent performer whose career spanned the history of ...
Written by the top authorities on different musical styles and cultural issues in African-American music, "African-American Music: An Introduction" presents an outstanding survey that looks at the progress of this legendary music form, from its earliest folk traditions through to the Rap and Hip Hop of today's modern music. Focusing on musical ...
The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on race, imparts a scathing look at the hypocrisy of hip-hop--and why its popularity proves that black America must overhaul its politics.
This text provides comprehensive coverage of black American music, from the arrival of the first Africans in the English colonies to contemporary developments in African-American history. The book draws on authentic documents, from colonial times to the present, to illuminate the history of black music. The book provides thorough treatment of ...
Timely and nuanced evaluation of the cultural phenomenon of Hip-Hop. Preface by Robin Kelley, rising star of Black studies in the US. This book features a roster of US artists and academics and discusses global hip hop culture and music from the US to Samoa! Topical and lively. In the preface of "The Vinyl Ain't Final", Robin Kelley exclaims 'Hip ...
A British historian who teaches American history examines African-American music from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s within the broader cultural and social circumstances of a racially segregated nation. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
This book offers an overview of the roots of Tejano and a discussion of its cultural impact and revealing biographies and critical essays on the contributions of the genre's most innovative and successful artists. Discography. Glossary. 50 illustrations.
Each of the volume's nine chapters focuses on a specific Latin American musical culture, addressing such themes as its history, common dialect, traditions, instrument manufacture, improvisational techniques, and newer, as well as traditional, forms of musical expression. An audio CD is available se
Stretching from the years during World War II when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mexican American Mojo is a lively account of Mexican ...
Engaging and enlightening, this guide explores African music's forms, musicians, instruments, and place in the life of the people. A discography classified by country, theme, group, and instrument is also included.
Bomb the Suburbs Graffitti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center William Upski Wimsatt In this blockbuster word-of-mouth, underground classic, William "Upski" Wimsatt attacks the whole idea of the suburb as "an unfortunate state- of-mind.., founded on fear, conformity, shallowness of character, and dullness of ...
Ruy Castro's biography of the rise of bossa nova is an inside look at the origins of a smoothly seductive musical form that for most North Americans means the music of Joao Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Arising from a yearning for something more subtle than the strident sambas of Carnival, bossa nova was not only a new beat and sound--it also ...
Heart & Soul celebrates the nearly half-cent ury (1930-1975) of flamboyant and extravagant flowering in A frican-American culture that enriched the entire world. From the Jackson Five to the Four Tops, it was an era of audacio us showmen. '
Post hip hop n: 1. a period of great transition for a new generation of youth searching for deeper understanding of themselves in a context outside of the hip-hop monopoly 2. An assertion that encapsulates this generation's broad range of abilities and ideas and incorporates recent social advances (i.e., the women's movement, gay rights) that hip ...
Zydeco is the exuberant dance music of Louisiana''s black Creole community, now being discovered by a broader audience worldwide. This is an inside view in photographs, interviews and commentary.'
This sympathetic biography of Marian Anderson--the first African-American singer to perform in the White House--reveals how the Daughters of the American Revolution attempted to squash her career. While author Allan Keiler documents Anderson's struggle to become an appreciated American musician and her involvement with the civil rights movement, ...
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