The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States Hardcover - 1995
by Samuel A. Floyd
Bold and original, this powerful examination of the roots of black music, from the ancient tribes of Africa to today's recording studios, offers a new way of listening to the music of black America and of appreciating its profound contribution to all American music. 2 figures; 19 musical examples; 39 rhythm examples.
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In spite of the quite apparent importance of African religion to the understanding of African ritual and its musical derivatives, music scholars have neglected to pay significant attention to it.
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Bold and original, The Power of Black Music offers a new way of listening to the music of black America, and appreciating its profound contribution to all American music. Striving to break down the barriers that remain between high art and low art, it brilliantly illuminates the centuries-old linkage between the music, myths, and rituals of Africa and the continuing evolution and enduring vitality of African-American music. Inspired by the pioneering work of Sterling Stuckey and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., advocates a new critical approach grounded in the forms and traditions of the music itself. He accompanies readers on a fascinating journey from the African ring, through the ring shout's powerful merging of music and dance in the slave culture, to the funeral parade practices of the early New Orleans jazzmen, the bluesmen in the twenties, the beboppers in the forties, and the free jazz, rock, Motown, and concert hall composers of the sixties and beyond. Floyd dismisses the assumption that Africans brought to the United States as slaves took the music of whites in the New World and transformed it through their own performance practices. Instead, he recognizes European influences, while demonstrating how much black music has continued to share with its African counterparts. Floyd maintains that while African Americans may not have direct knowledge of African traditions and myths, they can intuitively recognize links to an authentic African cultural memory.
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- Title The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
- Author Samuel A. Floyd
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, NY
- Date 1995-07-27
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780195082357 / 0195082354
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.57 x 6.43 x 1.18 in (24.31 x 16.33 x 3.00 cm)
- Reading level 1480
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Music - History and, Music - United States - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94000021
- Dewey Decimal Code 780.899
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- Booklist, 04/01/1995, Page 1369
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/1995, Page 126
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