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The power of Black music : interpreting its history from Africa to the United States

Author: Samuel A Floyd
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996, ©1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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