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Africa And The Blues
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Author : Gerhard Kubik
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-09-23
Africa And The Blues written by Gerhard Kubik and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-23 with Music categories.
In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through connections like these Kubik realized that the link between these two far-flung musicians is African-American music, the sound that became the blues. Such discoveries reveal a narrative of music evolution for Kubik, a cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. Traveling in Africa, Brazil, Venezuela, and the United States, he spent forty years in the field gathering the material for Africa and the Blues. In this book, Kubik relentlessly traces the remote genealogies of African cultural music through eighteen African nations, especially in the Western and Central Sudanic Belt. Included is a comprehensive map of this cradle of the blues, along with 31 photographs gathered in his fieldwork. The author also adds clear musical notations and descriptions of both African and African American traditions and practices and calls into question the many assumptions about which elements of the blues were "European" in origin and about which came from Africa. Unique to this book is Kubik's insight into the ways present-day African musicians have adopted and enlivened the blues with their own traditions. With scholarly care but with an ease for the general reader, Kubik proposes an entirely new theory on blue notes and their origins. Tracing what musical traits came from Africa and what mutations and mergers occurred in the Americas, he shows that the African American tradition we call the blues is truly a musical phenomenon belonging to the African cultural world.
The Roots Of The Blues
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Author : Samuel Charters
language : en
Publisher: Boston : M. Boyars
Release Date : 1981
The Roots Of The Blues written by Samuel Charters and has been published by Boston : M. Boyars this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Music categories.
Discusses African folk music and its relationship with American blues.
Jazz Transatlantic Volume Ii
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Author : Gerhard Kubik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-14
Jazz Transatlantic Volume Ii written by Gerhard Kubik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-14 with MUSIC categories.
The conclusion of a monumental study of jazz and its lasting influence
Jazz Transatlantic Volume I
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Author : Gerhard Kubik
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2017-10-17
Jazz Transatlantic Volume I written by Gerhard Kubik and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with Music categories.
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and how jazz has been defined and redefined. It also celebrates the phenomena of jazz performance and uncovers hidden gems of jazz history. The volume offers insights gathered during Kubik's extensive field work and based on in-depth interviews with jazz musicians around the Atlantic world. Languages, world views, beliefs, experiences, attitudes, and commodities all play a role. Kubik reveals what is most important--the expertise of individual musical innovators on both sides of the Atlantic, and hidden relationships in their thoughts. Besides the common African origins of much vocabulary and structure, all the expressions of jazz in Africa share transatlantic family relationships. Within that framework, musicians are creating and re-creating jazz in never-ending contacts and exchanges. The first of two volumes, Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I examines this transatlantic history, sociolinguistics, musicology, and the biographical study of personalities in jazz during the twentieth century. This volume traces the African and African American influences on the creation of the jazz sound and traces specific African traditions as they transform into American jazz. Kubik seeks to describe the constant mixing of sources and traditions, so he includes influences of European music in both volumes. These works will become essential and indelible parts of jazz history.
Soweto Blues
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Author : Gwen Ansell
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2005-09-28
Soweto Blues written by Gwen Ansell and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-28 with Music categories.
Tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American styles of music. Ansell illustrates how jazz occupies a unique place in South African music.Through interviews with hundreds of musicians, she pieces together a vibrant narrative history, bringing to life the early politics of resistance, the atmosphere of illegal performance spaces, the global anti-apartheid influence of Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, as well as the post-apartheid upheavals in the national broadcasting and recording industries.
Africa Blues
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Author : Xavier Grall
language : fr
Publisher: Terre de Brume
Release Date : 2011-02-01
Africa Blues written by Xavier Grall and has been published by Terre de Brume this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with categories.
Dans l'Algérie des premiers jours de la Rébellion, José Montfort. un riche colon, surprend un rebelle sur le point de mettre le feu à ses granges et l'exécute sans pitié. Dès cet instant. une lourde fatalité pèsera sur son domaine. Montfort néglige son épouse, Véronique, jeune femme silencieuse et trouble, pour qui le salut semble venir d'un jeune officier de la métropole, le lieutenant Simon. Leur aventure n'échappera pas à l'intuition de Montfort qui, cependant, répondra avec quelque tendresse à la faute de sa femme et lui confessera son terrible et obsédant secret. Désormais, sans cet ultime rempart, Montfort se trouvera privé de la volonté et du désir de vivre. Et, suite à la blessure qu'il reçoit d'un rebelle, il meurt en blasphémant le nom de Dieu. Mais le destin n'en aura pas encore fini... Dans Africa blues, " roman syncopé comme un air de jazz et grisant comme le sirocco qui souffle en rafale sur les mechtas ", Xavier Grall élève le drame algérien aux dimensions dépouillées et graves d'une tragédie grecque et d'un poème universel.
Africa And The Blues
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Author : Gerhard Kubik
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-09-23
Africa And The Blues written by Gerhard Kubik and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-23 with Music categories.
A narrative that explores the African genealogy of American Blues
Blues For The White Man
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Author : Fred de Vries
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Blues For The White Man written by Fred de Vries and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Social Science categories.
It started with a question about the blues: what makes the music of the downtrodden black man so alluring to white middle-class ears? And that’s where it gets interesting. Because blues is more than a musical genre: it’s a cultural phenomenon that spans several centuries on both sides of the Atlantic, from slavery to Black Lives Matter, from Jan van Riebeeck to Fees Must Fall, from Robert Johnson to Abdullah Ibrahim. In Blues for the White Man, Fred de Vries looks for answers in America’s Deep South, drawing historical parallels with South Africa’s experience of colonialism, slavery, racism, civil war, segrega¬tion and protest. Travelling to Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta, De Vries speaks to musicians, Black Lives Matter activists and Trump supporters. He continues the conversation in South Africa, interviewing student protesters, white farmers and political thought-leaders to develop an understanding of white supremacy and black anger, white fear and black pain. A fascinating, insightful journey through time and space, Blues for the White Man is a cele¬bration of multiculturalism and a plea for white people to do some ‘second line dancing’ for a change.
The Power Of Black Music
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Author : Samuel A. Floyd Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-07-27
The Power Of Black Music written by Samuel A. Floyd Jr. and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07-27 with Social Science categories.
When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition before him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied "talking" guitar passage and inserted calls and responses at key points in the musical narrative, Hendrix's performance of the national anthem also hearkened back to a tradition even older than the blues, a tradition rooted in the rings of dance, drum, and song shared by peoples across Africa. Bold and original, The Power of Black Music offers a new way of listening to the music of black America, and appreciating its profound contribution to all American music. Striving to break down the barriers that remain between high art and low art, it brilliantly illuminates the centuries-old linkage between the music, myths and rituals of Africa and the continuing evolution and enduring vitality of African-American music. Inspired by the pioneering work of Sterling Stuckey and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author Samuel A. Floyd, Jr, advocates a new critical approach grounded in the forms and traditions of the music itself. He accompanies readers on a fascinating journey from the African ring, through the ring shout's powerful merging of music and dance in the slave culture, to the funeral parade practices of the early new Orleans jazzmen, the bluesmen in the twenties, the beboppers in the forties, and the free jazz, rock, Motown, and concert hall composers of the sixties and beyond. Floyd dismisses the assumption that Africans brought to the United States as slaves took the music of whites in the New World and transformed it through their own performance practices. Instead, he recognizes European influences, while demonstrating how much black music has continued to share with its African counterparts. Floyd maintains that while African Americans may not have direct knowledge of African traditions and myths, they can intuitively recognize links to an authentic African cultural memory. For example, in speaking of his grandfather Omar, who died a slave as a young man, the jazz clarinetist Sidney Bechet said, "Inside him he'd got the memory of all the wrong that's been done to my people. That's what the memory is....When a blues is good, that kind of memory just grows up inside it." Grounding his scholarship and meticulous research in his childhood memories of black folk culture and his own experiences as a musician and listener, Floyd maintains that the memory of Omar and all those who came before and after him remains a driving force in the black music of America, a force with the power to enrich cultures the world over.
Mali Blues
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Author : Lieve Joris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Mali Blues written by Lieve Joris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Travelling through Senegal, Mauritania and Mali, the author sees the inhabitants coping with the hardships and instability that drought, ethnic conflict and rebel uprisings bring. This book also embraces the survival spirit of the people, centring around the Malinese blues singer Boubacar Traore.