American Music: An Introduction, Is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American
musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present.
With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings
together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic
fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves,
woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same
time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the
structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish
and unify African American music.
The second edition
has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on
African and African American musical continuities, African-derived
instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet
traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and new
downloadable resources bring the music to life.
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