Who hears here? : on Black music, pasts and present / Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. ; foreword by Tammy L. Kernodle ; afterword by Shana L. Redmond.
"Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is an award-winning musicologist, music historian, composer, and pianist, whose prescient theoretical and critical interventions have worked to build a bridge between Black cultural studies and musicology. Representing twenty-five years of commentary and scholarship, these e...
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Phono (Oakland, Calif.) ;
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 287 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Contents:
- Introduction : who hears here now?
- Cosmopolitan or provincial? : ideology in early black music historiography, 1867-1940
- Who hears here? : black music, critical bias, and the musicological skin trade
- The pot liquor principle : developing a black music criticism in American music studies
- Secrets, lies and transcriptions : new revisions on race, black music and culture
- Muzing new hoods, making new identities : film, hip-hop culture, and jazz music
- Afro-Modernism and music : on science, community, and magic in the Black Avant-Garde
- Bebop, jazz manhood and "piano shame"
- Blues and the ethnographic truth
- Time is illmatic : a song for my father, a letter to my son
- A new kind of blue : the power of suggestion and the pleasure of groove in Robert Glasper's black radio
- Free jazz and the price of black musical abstraction
- Jack Whitten's musical eye
- Out of place and out of line : Jason Moran's eclecticism as critical inquiry
- African American music
- Onward : an afterword by Shana L. Redmond.