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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/472785786 Title: Black popular music in America : from the spirituals, minstrels, and ragtime to soul, disco, and hip-hop Author: Arnold Shaw Publisher: New York : Schirmer Books, ©1986 ISBN/ISSN: 0028723104 9780028723105 OCLC:472785786

  
  

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Black popular music in America : from the spirituals, minstrels, and ragtime to soul, disco, and hip-hop

Author:	Arnold Shaw
Publisher:	New York : Schirmer Books, ©1986
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	As Shaw correctly states, no single volume covers the history of black popular music in its entirety, and most studies have focused on the white mainstream. American pop music is in fact a blend of black and white musical influences that can be better understood if explored from a black perspective. Shaw examines five key black stylesminstrelsy, spirituals, ragtime, jazz, and bluesanalyzing the origins and developments of each, profiling important artists and songs, and exploring the "white synthesis." Often the "synthesis" has amounted to little more than a soulless white imitation of inspired black stylistic innovations.  Read more...
Subjects	African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism. Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism. African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism View all subjects
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