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Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s-1920s)
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8153-2875-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 826 g

Reihe: Music in African American Culture S.

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 Geschichte der Musik Nichtwestliche Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The Colonial-Fedaralist Eras The African Legacy Everday Slave Life in the United States Part II: The Antebelum Era Church and ritual Leisure time in the Negro Quarters Part III: The Postbellum Era The Black Teacher as Institution Everyday Live after Emancipation

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.