"A magnificent book about Afro-American music and its impact on western culture. "―Race and Class
In
clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in
1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music
in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the
collision between African and European ways of doing music which
occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is
the major western music of the twentieth century. In showing why this is
so, the author presents not only an account of African American music
from its origins but also a more general consideration of the nature of
the music act and of its function in human life. The two streams of
discussion occupy alternate chapters so that each casts light on the
other. The author offers also an answer to what the Musical Times called
the "seldom posed though glaringly obtrusive" question: "why is it that
the music of an alienated, oppressed, often persecuted black minority
should have made so powerful an impact on the entire industrialized
world, whatever the color of its skin or economic status?"
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