From Jubilee to Hip Hop: Readings in African American Music [Hardcover]

From Jubilee to Hip Hop includes 36 reading selections that underscore the breadth and variety of African American musical culture. Each of these selections relates something notable and interesting about African American musical culture since the Emancipation, whether it is Marian Anderson's recollection of the legendary 1939 DAR Constitution Hall debacle, or John Chilton's story of the impact of Louis Jordan's song, Caldonia. Includes 36 reading selections that underscore the breath and variety of African American musical culture. Each selection relates something notable and interesting about African American musical culture since the Emancipation.Kip Lornell, Editor, The George Washington UniversityPreface Introduction Black American Music Since Reconstruction: An Overview 1 Adrift on Stormy Seas 2 Richards and Pringles Original Georgia Minstrels and Billy Kersands, 18891895 3 The Virginia Jubilee Singers in Bourke, Australia 4 African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Conclusion 5 War on Ragtime and Suppression of Ragtime 6 Of the Sorrow Songs 7 The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Jazz 8 Marshall Lullaby 9 The Scene and the Players in New York 10 Jelly Roll Blues 11 William Marion Cook 12 Ma Rainey and the Traveling Minstrels 13 Black Sacred Harp Singing from Southeast Alabama 14 A Negro Explains Jazz 15 Paul Robeson, Musician 16 Conflict and Resolution in the Life of Thomas Andrew Dorsey 17 Fats Waller (Comedy Tonight) 18 Dean of Afro-American Composers or Harlem Renaissance Man: The New Negro and the Musical Poetics of William Grant Still 19 Easter Sunday 20 Caldonia 21 Elder Becks Temple 22 T-Bone Blues: T-Bone Walkers Story in His Own Words 23 The Impact of Gospel Music on the Secular Music Industry 24 Singing in the Streets of Raleigh, 1963: Some Recollections 25 Motown Calls The Rock & Roll Kid 26 Respect: 19641965 27 Clifton Chenier: They Call Me the King 28 The Art of the Muscle: Miles Davis as American Knight and American Knave 29 EvallÃ!