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Race music : black cultures from bebop to hip-hop

Author: Guthrie P Ramsey
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series: Music of the African diaspora, 7.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Traces the history of African-American music from bebop to hip-hop, discussing how the African-American experience has often been chronicled through various forms of music.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Guthrie P Ramsey
ISBN: 0520210484 9780520210486 0520243331 9780520243330
OCLC Number: 49679500
Description: xii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Daddy's second line : toward a cultural poetics of race music --
Disciplining Black music : on history, memory, and contemporary theories --
"It's just the blues" : race, entertainment, and the blues muse --
"It just stays with me all of the time" : collective memory, community theater, and the ethnographic truth --
"We called ourselves modern" : race music and the politics and practice of Afro-modernism at midcentury --
"Goin' to Chicago" : memories, histories, and a little bit of soul --
Scoring a Black nation : music, film, and identity in the age of hip-hop --
"Santa Claus ain't got nothing on this!" : hip-hop hybridity and the Black church muse --
Epilogue : "Do you want it on your black-eyed peas?"
Series Title: Music of the African diaspora, 7.
Responsibility: Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
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Traces the history of African-American music from bebop to hip-hop, discussing how the African-American experience has often been chronicled through various forms of music.

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