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The Transformation of Black Music : the rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora.

The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics in the Diaspora, spanning four continents and a full millennium. Authors Samuel Floyd, Melanie Zeck, and Guthrie Ramsey discuss how these musics have blossomed, permeated existing traditions, and created new practices. A co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Floyd, Samuel A., Jr., 1937-2016
Other Authors: Zeck, Melanie, Ramsey, Guthrie P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Black people > Music > History and criticism.
Africans > Music > History and criticism.
Personnes noires > Musique > Histoire et critique.
Africains > Musique > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC.
Ethnomusicology.
Folk & Traditional.
Genres & Styles.
History & Criticism.
Black people > Music
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics in the Diaspora, spanning four continents and a full millennium. Authors Samuel Floyd, Melanie Zeck, and Guthrie Ramsey discuss how these musics have blossomed, permeated existing traditions, and created new practices. A companion to The Power of Black Music, this book brilliantly situates emerging, morphing, and influential black musics in a broader framework of cultural, political, and social histories. Filling in critical gaps thus far virtually ignored, this book will not only explore the inestimable value of blac.
Physical Description:1 online resource (281 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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