Race music : black cultures from bebop to hip-hop / Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
"This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Music of the African diaspora ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Daddy's Second Line: Toward a Cultural Poetics of Race Music
- 2. Disciplining Black Music: On History, Memory, and Contemporary Theories
- 3. "It's Just the Blues": Race, Entertainment, and the Blues Muse
- 4. "It Just Stays With Me All of the Time": Collective Memory, Community Theater, and the Ethnographic Truth
- 5. "We Called Ourselves Modern": Race Music and the Politics and Practice of Afro-Modernism at Midcentury
- 6. "Goin' to Chicago": Memories, Histories, and a Little Bit of Soul
- 7. Scoring a Black Nation: Music, Film, and Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop
- 8. "Santa Claus Ain't Got Nothing on This!": Hip-Hop Hybridity and the Black Church Muse
- Epilogue: "Do You Want it on Your Black-Eyed Peas?"