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1. African American music : an introduction

   New York : Routledge, c2006.

   Written by the top authorities on different musical styles and cultural issues in African-American music, "African-American Music: An Introduction" presents an outstanding survey that looks at the progress of this legendary music form, from its earliest folk traditions through to the Rap and Hip Hop of today's modern music. Focusing on musical genres and styles, this edited collection of articles includes individual chronological overviews and chapters that look at interpreting the musical style. Comprehensive in its study, "African America Music "looks at: blues, ragtime, jazz, musical theater, art and classical music, R&B, Rap, and Hip Hop. Introduced with a section on African antecedents and ending with a section on processes, the book reviews the aesthetics of African-American culture and music both a force of cultural resistance and change of global hegemony. This book will be a must read for all students of African-American music and anyone wishing to find out more about this legendary music.

2. African American music : an introduction

   Second edition - New York, NY : Routledge, 2015

   American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.

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3. African American music : an introduction

   Stewart, Earl L.

   New York : Schirmer Books : London : Prentice Hall International, c1998.

   African-American Music provides an introduction to all the richness and diversity of African-American musical styles, focusing on the distinct characteristics and development of each genre and its inherent styles including: spirituals, blues, gospel, ragtime, jazz, pop, and classical music.

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