AFAM/MUSIC 207N: Jazz and the African American Experience
This guide is for students in Penn State Harrisburg's AFAM/MUSIC 207N taught by Professor Bryan Grove. It includes numerous research sources about the evolution of Jazz and its influences on American culture.
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This is the online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries. All formats (books, journals, audiovisuals, maps, recordings, etc.) are included. Circulation status for individual items is also provided. Coverage: Presently contains about 7 million records. Updates: Continuous up-to-the-minute as new records are added.
This book tells the story of blues and the guitar from the first reported sightings of blues musicians to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression, when blues recording virtually came to a halt. Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar interweaves musical history and a spellbinding array of life stories to illustrate the early days of blues guitar in rich and resounding detail. It is the most comprehensive and complete account ever written of the early stars of blues guitar---an essential chapter in the history of American music.
The updated, 3rd edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present, and future. Gioia's book has been universally hailed as the most comprehensive and accessible history of the genre of all time.
Horne assembles a galvanic story depicting what may have been the era's most virulent economic and racist exploitation, as jazz musicians battled organized crime, the Ku Klux Klan, and other malignant forces dominating the nightclub scene where jazz became known. Horne pays particular attention to women artists and includes contributions from musicians with Native American roots.
Robert G. O'Meally has gathered a comprehensive collection of important essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life. It offers a wealth of insight and information about this music form that has put its stamp on American culture more profoundly than any other in the twentieth century.
This is the 3rd edition of an annotated bibliography of books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of jazz. It is an excellent tool for researchers and scholars needing to sort through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field since the mid-1990s.
Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. This new edition celebrates the twentieth anniversary of this landmark volume. It features a new foreword by renowned critic Greil Marcus that discusses the book's influence on American cultural studies as well as its relationship to Bob Dylan's 2001 album of the same name, "Love and Theft." In addition, Lott has written a new afterword that extends the study's range to the twenty-first century.
This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Deeply informed by Ramsey's experience as an accomplished musician, a sophisticated cultural theorist, and an enthusiast brought up in the community he discusses, Race Music explores the global influence and popularity of African American music, its social relevance, and key questions regarding its interpretation and criticism. Beginning with jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel, this book demonstrates that while each genre of music is distinct---possessing its own conventions, performance practices, and formal qualities---each is also grounded in similar techniques and conceptual frameworks identified with African American musical traditions.
Even with just forty-one recordings to his credit, Robert Johnson (1911-1938) is a towering figure in the history of the blues. His vast influence on twentieth-century American music, combined with his mysterious death at the age of twenty-seven, still encourage the speculation and myth that have long obscured the facts about his life. The most famous legend depicts a young Johnson meeting the Devil at a dusty Mississippi crossroads at midnight and selling his soul in exchange for prodigious guitar skills.
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. More than one hundred years after its first publication in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk remains possibly the most important book ever penned by a black American.
This essential volume covers some of the thorniest issues of musical discourse: how to go about describing musical works and procedures in prose, the rules for citations in notes and bibliography, and proper preparation of such materials as musical examples, tables, and illustrations. Cited as the authority by The Chicago Manual of Style, this classic handbook is the go-to source for anyone writing about music.