Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop Paperback - 2004
by Guthrie P. Ramsey
This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Beginning with jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel, this book demonstrates that while each genre of music is distinct, each is also grounded in similar techniques and conceptual frameworks identified with African American musical traditions. Photos.
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"This work easily makes Guthrie one of the top musicologists of his generation who writes on black music. The scope, depth, and breadth are highly impressive. His criticisms of other scholars are fair. And his treatments of black musical artists in time, in space, and in place are quite illuminating. I know no one else who has his mastery of knowledge over such a broad range of black musical works of different genres and periods."--Cornel West, Princeton University
"Witty, powerful, smart, opinionated, beautifully written, groundbreaking, and bold. Scholars will read Race Music and debate it for years to come."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
"Race Music is slammin'! Ramsey brilliantly interweaves oral history with his own scholarly readings of jazz, gospel, popular music, and film soundtracks with pathbreaking results. Race Music revolutionizes the way we receive and critique African American popular culture and provides a new context for our understanding of black music and cultural memory. A must read---intelligent, engaging and powerful."--Rae Linda Brown, author of The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price, 1887-1953
"One of the most engaging, thought provoking and original treatments of black music that I have read. Ramsey seamlessly combines ethnographic research, musicological theory, historical investigation, and personal narrative in a work that is at once rigorous and poetic. Spanning blues, gospel, jazz, rhythm and blues, soul and hip-hop, Race Music offers us the scholarly monograph as jam session-a first-rate intellectual essay whose rhythms, tones, and melodious voice are as captivating as the music Ramsey brilliantly explains and masterfully performs."--Michael Eric Dyson, author of Open Mike and Holler If You Hear Me
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- Title Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop
- Author Guthrie P. Ramsey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New Ed
- Pages 281
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 2004-11-22
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520243330 / 0520243331
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
- Reading level 1430
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Social life and customs, African Americans - Music - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002068455
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.640
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