Songsters And Saints
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Songsters And Saints
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Author : Paul Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1984-09-27
Songsters And Saints written by Paul Oliver and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-09-27 with Music categories.
Paul Oliver rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions represented on Race records.
American Studies
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Author : Janice A. Radway
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-03-09
American Studies written by Janice A. Radway and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-09 with Social Science categories.
American Studies is a vigorous, bold account of the changes in the field of American Studies over the last thirty-five years. Through this set of carefully selected key essays by an editorial board of expert scholars, the book demonstrates how changes in the field have produced new genealogies that tell different histories of both America and the study of America. Charts the evolution of American Studies from the end of World War II to the present day by showcasing the best scholarship in this field An introductory essay by the distinguished editorial board highlights developments in the field and places each essay in its historical and theoretical context Explores topics such as American politics, history, culture, race, gender and working life Shows how changing perspectives have enabled older concepts to emerge in a different context
African American Religious Thought
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Author : Cornel West
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
African American Religious Thought written by Cornel West and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Religion categories.
Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future. Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of African Americans need not be reduced to expressions of black religion, West and Glaude call for more careful reflection on the complex relationships of African American religious studies to conceptions of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, empire, and other values that continue to challenge our democratic ideals.
Continuum Encyclopedia Of Popular Music Of The World Volume 2
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Author : John Shepherd
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2003-05-08
Continuum Encyclopedia Of Popular Music Of The World Volume 2 written by John Shepherd 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 2003-05-08 with Social Science categories.
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.
Barrelhouse Blues
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Author : Paul Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-08-25
Barrelhouse Blues written by Paul Oliver and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-25 with Music categories.
In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn't't been captured on location by these performers and recorders. Eminent blues historian Paul Oliver uncovers these folk traditions and the circumstances under which they were recorded, rescuing the forefathers of the blues who were lost before they even had a chance to be heard. A careful excavation of the earliest recordings of the blues by one of its foremost experts, Barrelhouse Blues expands our definition of that most American style of music.
After Redemption
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Author : John M. Giggie
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-11-21
After Redemption written by John M. Giggie 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 2007-11-21 with History categories.
After Redemption fills in a missing chapter in the history of African American life after freedom. It takes on the widely overlooked period between the end of Reconstruction and World War I to examine the sacred world of ex-slaves and their descendants living in the region more densely settled than any other by blacks living in this era, the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta. Drawing on a rich range of local memoirs, newspaper accounts, photographs, early blues music, and recently unearthed Works Project Administration records, John Giggie challenges the conventional view that this era marked the low point in the modern evolution of African-American religion and culture. Set against a backdrop of escalating racial violence in a region more densely populated by African Americans than any other at the time, he illuminates how blacks adapted to the defining features of the post-Reconstruction South-- including the growth of segregation, train travel, consumer capitalism, and fraternal orders--and in the process dramatically altered their spiritual ideas and institutions. Masterfully analyzing these disparate elements, Giggie's study situates the African-American experience in the broadest context of southern, religious, and American history and sheds new light on the complexity of black religion and its role in confronting Jim Crow.
On The Real Side
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Author : Mel Watkins
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 1999-05-01
On The Real Side written by Mel Watkins and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-01 with Humor categories.
This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n' Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, and all-black shows and films. After generations of stereotypes, the underground humor finally emerged before the American public with Richard Pryor in the 1970s. But Pryor was not the first popular comic to present authentically black humor. Watkins offers surprising reassessments of such seminal figures as Fetchit, Bert Williams, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx, looking at how they paved the way for contemporary comics such as Whoopi Goldberg, Eddie Murphy, and Bill Cosby.
Watch This
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Author : Jonathan L. Walton
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2009-02
Watch This written by Jonathan L. Walton and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02 with Religion categories.
Through their constant television broadcasts, mass video distributions, and printed publications, African American religious broadcasters have a seemingly ubiquitous presence in popular culture. They are on par with popular entertainers and athletes in the African American community as cultural icons even as they are criticized by others for taking advantage of the devout in order to subsidize their lavish lifestyles. Watch This! seeks to move beyond such polarizing debates by critically delving into the dominant messages and aesthetic styles of African American televangelists and evaluating their ethical implications. --from publisher description.
Woke Me Up This Morning
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Author : Alan Young
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2012-09-29
Woke Me Up This Morning written by Alan Young 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 2012-09-29 with Gospel music categories.
Creators and Context. Starting in the mid-1980s, a talented group of comics creators changed the American comic industry forever by introducing adult sensibilities and aesthetics into popular genres such as superhero comics and the newspaper strip. Frank Millers Batman The Dark Knight Returns 1986 and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbonss Watchmen 1987 in particular revolutionized the genre. During this same period, underground and alternative genres began to garner critical acclaim and media attention, as best represented by Art Spiegelmans Maus. The Rise of the American Comics Artist is an insightful volume surveying the
Subversive Sounds
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Author : Charles B. Hersch
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Subversive Sounds written by Charles B. Hersch and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Music categories.
Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans’s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form—jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the neighborhoods and nightspots where jazz was born. This volume shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans’s complex racial rules to pursue their craft and how, in order to widen their audiences, they became fluent in a variety of musical traditions from diverse ethnic sources. These encounters with other music and races subverted their own racial identities and changed the way they played—a musical miscegenation that, in the shadow of Jim Crow, undermined the pursuit of racial purity and indelibly transformed American culture. “More than timely . . . Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune