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This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections, experts from a cross-section of disciplines engage with fundamental issues in ways that changed our perceptions of Black music. The topics includes the culturally and musically complex Black music-making of colonial America; string bands and other lesser-known genres practiced by Black artists; the jubilee industry and its audiences; and innovators in jazz, blues, and Black gospel.
Eclectic and essential, Music in Black American Life, 1600â1945 offers specialists and students alike a gateway to the history and impact of Black music in the United States.
Contributors: R. Reid Badger, Rae Linda Brown, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Sandra Jean Graham, Jeffrey Magee, Robert M. Marovich, Harriet Ottenheimer, Eileen Southern, Katrina Dyonne Thompson, Stephen Wade, and Charles Wolfe
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. âToward a Philosophy of Black Music Scholarshipâ
- 2. âBackstage: âWhite folks do as they please, and the darkies do as they canââ
- 3. âThe Origin and Development of the Black Musical Theater: A Preliminary Reportâ
- 4. âInnovators, Imitators, and a Jubilee Industryâ
- 5. âRural Black String Band Musicâ
- 6. âNashville Washboard Band: Something Out of Nothingâ
- 7. âThe Blues Tradition in St. Louisâ
- 8. âJames Reese Europe and the Prehistory of Jazzâ
- 9. âBefore Louis: When Fletcher Henderson Was the âPaul Whiteman of the Raceââ
- 10. âSweeping through the City: Thomas A. Dorsey and the Gospel Nexus (1932â1933)â
- 11. ââMy Soul's Been Anchored in de Lordââ and âBlack Satin Clothes at the Fairâ
- List of Original Publications
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover