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Histoire du jazz et de la musique afro-américaine
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ISBN: 2020144352 9782020144353 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris : Seuil,

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Sitting in
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ISBN: 1587290316 9781587290312 087745423X 9780877454236 Year: 1993 Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa University of Iowa Press

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This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz on writing and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986 publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz. Carruth brings his considerable poetic and literary sensibilities to bear on a topic very near to his heart: ""Those who are devoted primarily to jazz, to poetry, to all the arts, are also those who contribute more intelligently than others to our practical and moral, political and social, advancement.""

Le grand livre des Negro Spirituals : Go down, Moses
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ISBN: 2227299061 9782227299061 Year: 2000 Publisher: Paris : Bayard,


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Le jazz et l'Occident : culture afro-américaine et philosophie
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ISBN: 9782252036747 2252036745 Year: 2008 Volume: 72 Publisher: Paris : Klincksieck,

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Pourquoi la philosophie s'est-elle si souvent satisfaite au mieux de méconnaître le jazz et, au pire, de le mésentendre (Adorno) ? L'une des réponses serait que l'irruption du jazz, au début du XXe siècle, réimporte des valeurs - oralité, imitation, priorité du corps sur le signe, unité du sens et de la voix - que l'Occident s'est efforcé de congédier dès l'origine de la philosophie occidentale. Deux mille cinq cents ans plus tard, après une lente maturation au sein de la communauté afro-américaine, le jazz consacre des thèmes esthétiques et ontologiques auxquels les nouvelles techniques de communication et de diffusion assurent un retentissement planétaire.


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Les négro-spirituals et les gospel songs
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ISBN: 2130457045 9782130457046 Year: 1993 Volume: 2791 Publisher: Paris : PUF - Presses Universitaires de France,


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The Games Black Girls Play : Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
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ISBN: 0814732739 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York : NYU Press,

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2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology. 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist. When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to the tick-tat under their toes. But this book argues that the games black girls play -handclapping songs, cheers, and double-dutch jump rope-both reflect and inspire the principles of black popular musicmaking. The Games Black Girls Play illustrates how black musical styles are incorporated into the earliest games African Ame

Race Music : Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop
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ISBN: 0520210484 9780520243331 0520243331 1282358014 9786612358012 0520938437 1597348465 9780520938434 9780520210486 9781597348461 9780520210486 9780520243330 9782002068455 2002068453 9781282358010 6612358017 Year: 2003 Volume: 7 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family gatherings with food and dancing, and jam sessions at local nightclubs. This lays the foundation for a brilliant discussion of how musical meaning emerges in the private and communal realms of lived experience and how African American music has shaped and reflected identities in the black community. Deeply informed by Ramsey's experience as an accomplished musician, a sophisticated cultural theorist, and an enthusiast brought up in the community he discusses, Race Music explores the global influence and popularity of African American music, its social relevance, and key questions regarding its interpretation and criticism. Beginning with jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel, this book demonstrates that while each genre of music is distinct-possessing its own conventions, performance practices, and formal qualities-each is also grounded in similar techniques and conceptual frameworks identified with African American musical traditions. Ramsey provides vivid glimpses of the careers of Dinah Washington, Louis Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, Cootie Williams, and Mahalia Jackson, among others, to show how the social changes of the 1940's elicited an Afro-modernism that inspired much of the music and culture that followed. Race Music illustrates how, by transcending the boundaries between genres, black communities bridged generational divides and passed down knowledge of musical forms and styles. It also considers how the discourse of soul music contributed to the vibrant social climate of the Black Power Era. Multilayered and masterfully written, Race Music provides a dynamic framework for rethinking the many facets of African American music and the ethnocentric energy that infused its creation.

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