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245 10 a| Re-searching Black music /c| Jon Michael Spencer.;

250 a| First edition.;

300 a| xi, 154 pages ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-150) and index.;

505 0 a| The rhythm -- The religion -- Folk muse -- Popular muse -- Classical muse -- An ethics.;

520 a| This book offers a new paradigm for the study of African American music. Proceeding from the proposition that black culture in America cannot be considered apart from its religious and philosophical roots, the author argues that "theology and musicology serving together" can form the basis of a holistic, integrative approach to black music and, indeed, to black culture in all its aspects. As he shows in his opening chapters, the author's scholarly method--theomusicology--derives from two fundamental, intertwined attributes of African American culture: its underlying rhythmicity and its thoroughly religious nature. The author then applies this approach to the folk, popular, and classical music produced by black Americans. Finally, he considers the ethical implications that his "re-searching" of black music uncovers. "[A] spiritual archaeology of music leads to a recognition that we are estranged from ourselves," he writes. "This estrangement has occurred by virtue of our maintaining a doctrine of belief that sides the sacred, spiritual, and religious in respective opposition to the profane, sexual, and cultural. The recognition of this estrangement should propel us toward reconciliation, for it is the natural impulse of the ethical agent to resolve life's tensions in pursuit of human happiness." While the author's own focus is on music, he argues persuasively that theomusicology can serve as a "common mode of inquiry" for all African American cultural studies.;

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Re-searching Black music / Jon Michael Spencer.

Author/creator	Jongintaba, Yahya, 1957-
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1996.
Description	xi, 154 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects	African Americans--Music. --History and criticism. Music--United States. --History and criticism.

Contents	The rhythm -- The religion -- Folk muse -- Popular muse -- Classical muse -- An ethics.
Abstract	This book offers a new paradigm for the study of African American music. Proceeding from the proposition that black culture in America cannot be considered apart from its religious and philosophical roots, the author argues that "theology and musicology serving together" can form the basis of a holistic, integrative approach to black music and, indeed, to black culture in all its aspects. As he shows in his opening chapters, the author's scholarly method--theomusicology--derives from two fundamental, intertwined attributes of African American culture: its underlying rhythmicity and its thoroughly religious nature. The author then applies this approach to the folk, popular, and classical music produced by black Americans. Finally, he considers the ethical implications that his "re-searching" of black music uncovers. "[A] spiritual archaeology of music leads to a recognition that we are estranged from ourselves," he writes. "This estrangement has occurred by virtue of our maintaining a doctrine of belief that sides the sacred, spiritual, and religious in respective opposition to the profane, sexual, and cultural. The recognition of this estrangement should propel us toward reconciliation, for it is the natural impulse of the ethical agent to resolve life's tensions in pursuit of human happiness." While the author's own focus is on music, he argues persuasively that theomusicology can serve as a "common mode of inquiry" for all African American cultural studies.
Local note	Little-305093--305131010526R
Local note	Little-305235--305131010533P
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-150) and index.
LCCN	95041760
ISBN	0870499297

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