African American music : an introduction /

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Other Authors: Burnim, Mellonee V. (Mellonee Victoria), 1950- (Editor, Contributor), Maultsby, Portia K. (Editor, Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2006.
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Online Access: Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Genres
  • Issues of mass meditation
  • Issues of gender
  • Musical agency.
  • Introduction / Mellonee V. Burnim and Portia K. Maultsby
  • Intellectual history / Portia K. Maultsby and Mellonee V. Burnim with contributions from Susan Oehler.
  • pt. 1. Genres. Secular folk music / Dena J. Epstein with contributions from Rosita M. Sands
  • Religious music / Mellonee V. Burnim
  • Blues. Chronological overview / David Evans
  • The blues in transcultural contexts / Susan Oehler
  • Ragtime / Ingeborg Harer
  • Jazz. Chronological overview / Ingrid Monson
  • Interpreting jazz / Travis A. Jackson
  • Musical theater / Thomas L. Riis
  • Art/classical music. Chronological overview / Josephine R.B. Wright
  • Interpreting classical music / Olly Wilson
  • Rhythm and blues / Portia K. Maultsby
  • Soul / Portia K. Maultsby
  • Funk / Portia K. Maultsby
  • Disco and house / Kai Fikentscher
  • Techno / Beverly May
  • Hip-hop and rap / Dawn M. Norfleet.
  • pt. 2. Issues of mass mediation. The music industry. The popular music industry / Reebee Garofalo
  • The gospel music industry / Mellonee V. Burnim
  • Profiles of record labels. Motown / Charles Sykes
  • Stax / Rob Bowman
  • Philadelphia international / John A. Jackson.
  • pt. 3. Issues of gender. Women in African American music. Gospel / Mellonee V. Burnim
  • Blues / Daphne Duval Harrison
  • Jazz / Sherrie Tucker
  • Women-identified music / Eileen M. Hayes
  • Rock / Maureen Mahon.
  • pt. 4. Musical agency. African American music as resistance. Antebellum period / Lawrence W. Levine
  • Civil rights movement / Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • Post-civil rights period / Mark Anthony Neal.