The music of black Americans : a history / Eileen Southern.
| Author/creator | Southern, Eileen |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [1971] |
| Description | xviii, 552 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Partial contents | Song in a strange land, 1619-1775. The African heritage ; New England and the Middle colonies ; The Southern colonies -- Let my people go, 1776-1866. Two wars and the new nation ; The ante-bellum period: urban life ; The ante-bellum period: rural life ; The ante-bellum period: general character of the folk music ; The war years and emancipation -- Blow ye the trumpet, 1867-1919. After the war ; The turn of the century ; Precursors of jazz: ragtime and blues ; Precursors of jazz: syncopated dance orchestras and brass bands -- Lift every voice, 1920 -- The jazz age ; The Black renaissance ; Composers: from nationalists to experimentalists ; The mid-century years. |
| Contents | Part I. Song in a strange land, 1619-1775. The African heritage. Music in West Africa ; Musical instruments and performance practices ; The professional musician ; Music and poetic forms ; Melody, rhythm, and musical texture ; Poetry and the dance ; Slavery in the colonies -- New England and the middle colonies. Music in the colonies ; Sources of information about black musicians ; The colonial newspaper ; Other primary sources ; Congregational singing at worship services ; Psalm singing in the home and the community ; Religious instruction and psalm singing ; Congregational singing and the reform movement ; The growth of hymnody ; Musical activities among the Moravians ; Holiday celebrations and music ; Social diversions and music ; The development of musical skills among the slaves ; Social songs ; Slave festivals and the African tradition ; Other slave gatherings -- The southern colonies. Charles Town and other towns ; Religious instruction for the slaves ; Sabbath activities ; Opportunities for developing musical skills ; Black dance musicians ; Recreational music of the slaves -- Part II. Let my people go, 1776-1866. Two wars and the new nation. Black musicians in the wars ; The Revolutionary War ; The War of 1812 ; The post-revolutionary period ; Musical activities in the new nation ; Black singing-school masters ; The emergence of independent Negro churches ; The earliest black congregations ; The first independent black denominations ; Richard Allen's hymnbook ; The camp meeting ; Singing in the camp meeting ; The camp-meeting spiritual ; Shouts in the camp meeting ; Ethiopian minstrelsy ; Antecedents of the minstrel songs ; Growth of the "Ethiopian" tradition -- The ante-bellum period: urban life. Black musicians and the general state of music ; Urban music in the north: Philadelphia ; New York ; Other northern cities ; The anti-slavery movement ; The Negro church and music ; Urban music in the south: New Orleans ; Other southern cities ; Black watermen -- The ante-bellum period: rural life. Contemporary sources of information ; Daily life on the plantation ; The patrol system ; Activities of free time ; Religious services ; The shout ; Music on the auction block ; Holidays and frolics ; Entertainment for the planters -- The ante-bellum period: general character of the folk music. The musical sources ; Song types ; The worksongs ; Dance songs and play songs ; Story songs or ballets ; Satirical songs ; Field and street cries ; Spirituals ; Poetic forms ; Poetic language and themes ; Relationship between text and music ; Musical features of the songs ; Melody and scales ; Rhythmic features ; Musical texture ; Performance practices ; Origin of the folksongs ; Dispersion of the folk music -- The war years and emancipation. Music in the Union Army ; Music in the Confederate Army ; Music in the contraband camp ; Emancipation -- |
| Contents | Part III. Blow ye the trumpet, 1867-1919. After the war. Songs of the people ; The spirituals ; Concert artists ; Vocal ensembles ; Musical organizations ; Black minstrelsy ; America's black troubadour ; Black minstrel stars ; A writer of ballads ; Festivals, road shows, and extravaganzas ; Itinerant and community musicians -- The turn of the century. The general state of music ; The nationalistic movement in the United States ; Black nationalistic composers ; Harry Burleigh ; Clarence Cameron White ; R. Nathaniel Dett ; John Wesley Work, Sr. ; Black nationalists on Broadway ; Will Marion Cook ; Robert Cole and J. Rosamond Johnson ; In the concert world ; Music manuals and a book about Negroes ; The Spanish-American War -- Precursors of jazz: ragtime and blues. The general state of music ; The emergence of rag music ; Ragtime songs ; Early ragtime song writers ; Instrumental rags ; Scott Joplin, king of ragtime ; Other black composers of rags ; Joe Jordan ; Eubie Blake ; Ragtime performers ; Ragtime style in the music of white song writers and composers ; The blues ; Characteristics of the blues ; Blues and spirituals ; W. C. Handy, father of the blues -- Precursors of jazz: syncopated dance orchestras and brass bands. Syncopated dance music in New York ; James Reese Europe ; Other band leaders ; Entertainment music in Chicago ; Bands and orchestras in New Orleans ; Jelly Roll Morton ; World War I ; Songs of the war ; After the war ; The theater owners booking association -- Part IV. Lift every voice, 1920-. The jazz age. Characteristics of jazz ; Pioneer jazz orchestras in Chicago ; King Oliver ; Morton and jazz ; Louis Armstrong ; The big bands ; The swing era and Duke Ellington ; Kansas City and Count Basie ; Principal black jazzmen and singers ; Black jazz composer-arrangers ; White musicians and jazz ; Blues and spirituals ; Gospel songs and Thomas Dorsey ; Black jazz pianists ; Willie-the-Lion Smith ; Luckey Roberts ; J. P. Johnson ; Fats Waller ; Earl Hines ; The boogie-woogie -- The black renaissance. The general state of music in the nation ; Concert artists ; Roland Hayes ; Marian Anderson ; Other artists ; Professional choruses ; Hall Johnson ; Eva Jessye ; Community organizations and college groups ; Harlem and the black renaissance ; Black musical comedies on Broadway ; Special concerts and festivals ; The black entertainment industry and the federal arts projects -- Composers: from nationalists to experimentalists. The nationalists ; William Dawson ; Music educators ; William Grant Still, "Dean of Afro-American composers" ; The Afro-American Symphony ; Eclectics and experimentalists ; Howard Swanson ; Ulysses Kay ; Hale Smith ; Julia Perry ; Thomas J. Anderson ; Others ; Composers born in the thirties ; Olly Wilson ; Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson ; David Baker ; Others ; Experiments in concert jazz ; John Lewis ; Jazz in the church -- The mid-century years. The war years ; The black revolution ; New developments in jazz ; The avant-garde ; Rhythm and blues, gospel music ; The world of opera ; Symphony orchestras and black performers ; Concert artists ; Music associations and music education ; Music festivals and competitions. |
| Abstract | This survey of the music of black Americans begins with the arrival in 1619 of the first black men in the English colonies. It discusses the work of black composers and performers, the role of the black churches in the North, theatrical activities, the songs of work and play, the development of jazz, and art music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes "Bibliography and discography" (pages 511-532) and index. |
| LCCN | 77098891 |
| ISBN | 0393021564 |
| Stock number | $10.00 |
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