America's Black musical heritage / Tilford Brooks.

Author/creator Brooks, Tilford
Format Book
Publication InfoEnglewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1984.
Descriptionxvi, 336 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Subjects
African Americans--Music. --History and criticism.

Contents Foreword -- Preface -- Why study black music? -- Black music and its roots. Rhythmic character ; Call-and-response patterns ; Mode, scale, and harmony ; Variety of timbre ; Heterophony ; Improvisation and theme-with-variations form ; Predominance of human voice and percussion ; Instrumentation ; Persistent moods in lyrics and music ; Functionality ; Dance -- Black music forms before 1900. Spirituals. Modes ; Work song ; Cries, calls, and hollers ; The blues. Blues form (W. C. Handy) ; Black Creole music -- Black music forms after 1900. Ragtime. Scott Joplin ; Jazz. New Orleans jazz (Instrumentation ; The jazz composer ; Jelly Roll Morton) ; The roots of swing (Chicago ; Louis Armstrong ; New York ; Duke Ellington ; Kansas City and the southwest ; Bennie Moten) ; Bebop (The bebop pioneers) ; Cool jazz (Miles Davis ; John Lewis and the modern jazz quartet) ; Hard bop ; Free form jazz (Sonny Rollins ; Miles Davis ; John Coltrane ; Ornette Coleman) ; Jazz/rock fusion ; Rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and soul (Chuck Berry) ; Gospel songs (Thomas Dorsey) ; Gospel style -- The black musician in American society. Black musicians prior to 1865. The slave musician ; The free black musician during slavery (The Chevalier de Saint-Georges) ; Black musicians after the Civil War. The black musician and minstrelsy (James A. Bland) ; Black musical comedy (Will Marion Cook ; J. Rosamond Johnson) ; Gussie Davis ; Black college musical groups ; The black musician and the European concert tradition ; Black musicians in the twentieth century. The black musician in jazz, blues, and popular music ; The black musician and symphony, theater, and television orchestras (Black conductors) ; The black singer in concert and opera ; The black musician and the musicians' union -- American black composers in the European tradition. New Orleans composers ; Synthesizers of two traditions. Clarence Cameron White (Ouanga) ; Robert Nathaniel Dett (The Ordering of Moses) ; William Grant Still (Afro-American Symphony) ; William Levi Dawson (Negro Folk Symphony) ; The eclectics. Howard Swanson (Short Symphony) ; Ulysses Kay (Fantasy Variations) ; George T. Walker (Piano Sonata No. 1) ; Julia Perry (Stabat Mater) ; Hale Smith (Contours) ; Thomas J. Anderson (Squares) ; Arthur Cunningham (Lullabye for a Jazz Baby) ; Frederick C. Tillis (Music for alto flute, violoncello, and piano) ; William S. Fischer (A Quiet Movement) ; Olly Wilson (In Memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr.) ; John Carter (Cantata) ; Wendell Logan (Songs of Our Times) ; Talib Rasul Hakim (Sound-Gone) -- Appendix A. List of compositions by composers included in this study ; Appendix B. List of recordings of compositions by composers included in this study.
Abstract This comprehensive, indexed volume covers almost every aspect of black music in the United States, including black music and its roots, its forms before 1900, and after 1900, the black musicians in American society and American black composers in the European tradition. In the final chapter Brooks deals with 17 composers, discusses their backgrounds and analyzes one major work of each musician. The appendixes list compositions by composers and recordings of compositions by composers included in the study.
Local noteLittle-245251--3051301096690
Local noteLittle-300631--305131008495$
Bibliography note"List of compositions by composers included in this study": pages 277-304.
Bibliography note"List of recordings of compositions by composers included in this study": pages 305-309.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (pages 311-322) and index.
LCCN 83011184
ISBN0130243159
ISBN0130243078 (pbk.)

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML3556.B76 A5 1984 ✔ Available Place Hold