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001 2016021235
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005 20190524125310.0
008 160513s2017 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 _a 2016021235
020 _a9780195307245
_qhardcover ;
_qalkaline paper
042 _apcc
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dDLC
050 0 0 _aML3545
_b.F598 2017
082 0 0 _a780.89/96
_223
100 1 _aFloyd, Samuel A.,
_cJr.,
_d1937-2016,
245 1 4 _aThe transformation of black music :
_bthe rhythms, the songs, and the ships that make the African diaspora /
_cSamuel A. Floyd, Jr. with Melanie Zeck and Guthrie Ramsey, Jr.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bOxford University Press,
_c[2017]
300 _axxxv, 240 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index.
505 0 _aForeword / Melanie Zeck -- Preface / Samuel A. Floyd Jr. and Melanie Zeck -- Introduction -- Black music and the African Diaspora. Out of Africa: setting sail from the motherland -- The making of the African Diaspora: ships on the oceans -- The Diaspora's concert worlds: Europe and the Americas -- Isles of rhythm: the Cinquillo-Tresillo Complex in the Circum-Caribbean -- Ties that bind: myth and ritual in the Circum-Caribbean and beyond -- Case studies. "Pip's tambourine": black music and Sterling Stuckey's revelations of Herman Melville's hidden sources -- "Git on board, lil' chillun": children and music in the Diaspora / (by Melanie Zeck) -- The movement: black identities and the paths forward -- Afro-modernism and music: on science, community, and magic in the black avant-garde / (by Guthrie Ramsey Jr.) -- Africa and the trope of the return -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Excerpt from "Ring shout!: literary studies, historical studies, and black music inquiry" -- Appendix B: Figures and institutions from the "first black renaissance."
520 _aThe Transformation of Black Music includes a full spectrum of black musics from four continents as it argues for a re-codification of black musics and performers. Framed by a call and response argument, the authors present not only a more holistic and historically accurate understanding of musics in the African Diaspora, but also an intellectually robust future for the field of black music research.
650 0 _aBlacks
_vMusic
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAfricans
_xMusic
_xHistory and criticism.
700 1 _aZeck, Melanie,
700 1 _aRamsey, Guthrie P.,
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