African American Jazz and Rap : Social and Philosophical Examinations of Black Expressive Behavior

Conyers, James L. (EDT)

McFarland & Co Inc（2001/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786408283
• DDC分類 781.6508996073

Full Description

Music is an expressive voice of a culture, often more so than literature. While jazz and rap are musical genres popular among people of numerous racial and social backgrounds, they are truly important historically for their representation of and impact upon African American culture and traditions. Essays offer interdisciplinary study of jazz and rap as they relate to black culture in America. The essays are grouped under sections. One examines an Afrocentric approach to understanding jazz and rap; another, the history, culture, performers, instruments, and political role of jazz and rap. There are sections on the expressions of jazz in dance and literature; rap music as art, social commentary, and commodity; and the future. Each essay offers insight and thoughtful discourse on these popular musical styles and their roles within the black community and in American culture as a whole. References are included for each essay.

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction (by James B. Stewart)     

I. Toward an Afrocentric Approach to the Study of Jazz and Rap Music

1. Metatheory and Methodology: Appraising the Black Experience

James L. Conyers, Jr.     

2. The Role of Criticism in Black Popular Culture

Warren C. Swindell     

II. "All That Jazz": History, Culture, Performers, Instruments, and Political Functionality

3. "And All That Jazz" Has African Roots!

Learthen Dorsey     

4. Jazz Antecedents

Eddie S. Meadows     

5. The Life and Jazz Style of Blue Mitchell

Charles I. Miller     

6. Jazz Guitar: Ain't No Jazz

George Walker and Mondo Eyen we Langa     

7. The Social Roots of African American Music: 1950-1970

Thomas J. Porter     

8. Jazz Musicians in Postwar Europe and Japan

Larry Ross     

III. Jazz Expressions in Dance and Literature

9. African American Dance and Music

Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.     

10. Lady Sings the Blues: Toni Morrison and the Jazz/Blues Aesthetic

Gloria T. Randle     

11. Al Young: Jazz Griot

Michael Carroll     

IV. Rap Music as Art Form, Social-Political Commentary, and Economic Commodity

12. The Rhythm of Rhyme: A Look at Rap Music as an Art Form from a Jazz Perspective

Reginald Thomas     

13. At the Vanguard: African American Life as Seen Through the Music of Selected Rap and Jazz Artists

Andrew P. Smallwood     

14. Africana Cosmology, Ethos, and Rap: A Social Study of Black Popular Culture

James L. Conyers, Jr.     

V. Toward the Future: Educating Future Generations and Preserving Cultural Traditions

15. Can You Sing Jazz? Perception and Appreciation of Jazz Music Among African American Young Adults

Nancy J. Dawson     

16. Hip-Hop and the Rap Music Industry

Tshombe Walker     

17. Ethnomusicology and the African American Tradition

George L. Starks, Jr.     

18. Reflections on Sterling Stuckey's Slave Culture: Understanding Pan Afrikan Nationalism as a Cultural Force

Ahati N. N. Touré     

About the Contributors     

Index