Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945
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Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945

A University of Illinois Press Anthology

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eBook - ePub

Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945

A University of Illinois Press Anthology

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About this book

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, 1600–1945 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

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. “Toward a Philosophy of Black Music Scholarship”
  9. 2. “Backstage: ‘White folks do as they please, and the darkies do as they can’”
  10. 3. “The Origin and Development of the Black Musical Theater: A Preliminary Report”
  11. 4. “Innovators, Imitators, and a Jubilee Industry”
  12. 5. “Rural Black String Band Music”
  13. 6. “Nashville Washboard Band: Something Out of Nothing”
  14. 7. “The Blues Tradition in St. Louis”
  15. 8. “James Reese Europe and the Prehistory of Jazz”
  16. 9. “Before Louis: When Fletcher Henderson Was the ‘Paul Whiteman of the Race’”
  17. 10. “Sweeping through the City: Thomas A. Dorsey and the Gospel Nexus (1932–1933)”
  18. 11. “‘My Soul's Been Anchored in de Lord’” and “Black Satin Clothes at the Fair”
  19. List of Original Publications
  20. Contributors
  21. Index
  22. Back Cover