Southern / Wright Images

Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s-1920s)
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-135-65702-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten

This lavishly illustrated book brings together for the first time a significant body of imagery devoted to the traditional culture of the African-American slave.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Southern, Eileen J.

Wright, Josephine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents List of Illustrations, Series Editor's Foreward, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part I: The Colonial and Federalist Eras The African Legacy, Everyday Slave Life in the United States Part II: The Antebellum Era Church and Ritual, Leisure Time in the Negro Quarters Part III: The Postbellum Era The Black Preacher as an Institution, Everyday Life after Emancipation Selected Bibliography, Index of Artwork by Titles, Index of Artists, Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eileen Southern is Professor Emerita of Music and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author or editor of several books on African-American music, including The Music of Black Americans: A History, Readings in Black American Music, and Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians. She lives in Queens, NY.
Josephine Wright is Professor of Music and Black Studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She is coeditor (with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.) of New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern, and coauthor (with Eileen Southern) of African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance: 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography. She lives in Wooster, OH.