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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Samuel A Floyd |
| ISBN: | 0195109759 9780195109757 0195082354 9780195082357 |
| OCLC Number: | 36545006 |
| Notes: | Originally published in 1995. |
| Description: | 316 p. : music ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- African Music, Religion, and Narrative -- Transformations -- Syncretization and Synthesis: Folk and Written Traditions -- African-American Modernism, Signifyin(g), and Black Music; -- The Negro Renaissance: Harlem and Chicago Flowerings -- Transitions: Function and Difference in Myth and Ritual -- Continuity and Discontinuity: The Fifties -- The Sixties and After -- Troping the Blues: From Spirituals to the Concert Hall -- The Object of Call-Response: The Signifyin(g) -- Implications and Conclusions -- Appendix. |
| Responsibility: | Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. |
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