Negro Musicians and Their Music
Negro Musicians and Their Music

Author: Maud Cuney-Hare

Publisher: G. K. Hall

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13:

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Maude Cuney Hare (1874-1936) was a biographer, playwright, and musician, but it is her work as a musicologist that is made accessible again in this facsimile reprint of her 1936 work. The text is one of the first detailed histories of African, Anglo-African, and African- American contributions to world music, and offers profiles of a host of black composers and artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes an extensive new introduction by Josephine Harreld Love. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Black Diamond Queens
Black Diamond Queens

Author: Maureen Mahon

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-10-09

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1478012773

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African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.

Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography
Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography

Author: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 0195387953

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The Harlem Renaissance is the best known and most widely studied cultural movement in African American history. Now, in Harlem Renaissance Lives, esteemed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham have selected 300 key biographical entries culled from the eight-volume African American National Biography, providing an authoritative who's who of this seminal period. Here readers will find engagingly written and authoritative articles on notable African Americans who made significant contributions to literature, drama, music, visual art, or dance, including such central figures as poet Langston Hughes, novelist Zora Neale Hurston, aviator Bessie Coleman, blues singer Ma Rainey, artist Romare Bearden, dancer Josephine Baker, jazzman Louis Armstrong, and the intellectual giant W. E. B. Du Bois. Also included are biographies of people like the Scottsboro Boys, who were not active within the movement but who nonetheless profoundly affected the artistic and political statements that came from Harlem Renaissance figures. The volume will also feature a preface by the editors, an introductory essay by historian Cary D. Wintz, and 75 illustrations.

Notable Black American Women
Notable Black American Women

Author: Jessie Carney Smith

Publisher: UXL

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 1390

ISBN-13:

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Biographical essays on 500 Afro-American women that combine life histories with information on the key people, places, institutions, and events that have had an impact on these women.

From Spirituals to Symphonies
From Spirituals to Symphonies

Author: Helen Walker-Hill

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 0252074548

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Exploding the assumption that black women's only important musical contributions have been in folk, jazz, and pop Helen Walker-Hill's unique study provides a carefully researched examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African American women composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the effect of race, gender, and class, From Spirituals to Symphonies notes the important role played by individual personalities and circumstances in shaping this underappreciated category of American art. The study also provides in-depth exploration of the backgrounds, experiences, and musical compositions of eight African American women including Margaret Bonds, Undine Smith Moore, and Julia Perry, who combined the techniques of Western art music with their own cultural traditions and individual gifts. Despite having gained national and international recognition during their lifetimes, the contributions of many of these women are today forgotten.

African American Music
African American Music

Author: Mellonee V. Burnim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1317934423

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American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.

The Music of Black Americans
The Music of Black Americans

Author: Eileen Southern

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 9780393038439

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Beginning with the arrival of the first Africans in the English colonies, Eileen Southern weaves a fascinating narrative of intense musical activity. As singers, players, and composers, black American musicians are fully chronicled in this landmark book. Now in the third edition, the author has brought the entire text up to date and has added a wealth of new material covering the latest developments in gospel, blues, jazz, classical, crossover, Broadway, and rap as they relate to African American music.