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

Samuel A. Floyd
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • 1 African Music, Religion, and Narrative (page 14)
  • 2 Transformations (page 35)
  • 3 Syncretization and Synthesis: Folk and Written Traditions (page 58)
  • 4 African-American Modernism, Signifyin(g), and Black Music (page 87)
  • 5 The Negro Renaissance: Harlem and Chicago Flowerings (page 100)
  • 6 Transitions: Function and Difference in Myth and Ritual (page 136)
  • 7 Continuity and Discontinuity: The Fifties (page 160)
  • 8 The Sixties and After (page 183)
  • 9 Troping the Blues: From Spirituals to the Concert Hall (page 212)
  • 10 The Object of Call-Response: The Signifyin(g) Symbols (page 226)
  • 11 Implications and Conclusions (page 267)
  • Appendix (page 279)
  • Printed Works Cited (page 281)
  • Sound Recordings Cited (page 297)
  • Films and Videotapes Cited (page 305)
  • Index (page 307)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 83.4 (Mar. 1997): 1489-1490 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2953050
AM 16.1 (Spring 1998): 95-98 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3052678
AAR 31.3 (Autumn 1997): 540-542 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3042595
AHR 102. 2 (Apr. 1997): 551-552 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2170997
NOT 53.3 (Mar. 1997): 812-813 http://www.jstor.org/stable/899745
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Published: c1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780195082357 (hardcover)
  • 9780195109757 (paper)
  • 9780198024378 (ebook)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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