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Subject(s)

• African Americans—Music—History and criticism [Browse]

Related name

• ProQuest (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• African American history series (Lanham, Md.) [More in this series]
• The African American history series

Summary note

Since their enslavement in West Africa and transport to plantations of the New World, black people have made music that has been deeply entwined with their religious, community, and individual identities. Music was one of the most important constant elements of African American culture in the centuries-long journey from slavery to freedom. It also continued to play this role in blacks' post-emancipation odyssey from second-class citizenship to full equality. Lift Every Voice traces the roots of black music in Africa and slavery and its evolution in the United States from the end of slavery to.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

"Selected bibliography and discography": pages 207-212

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Contents

• From West Africa to slavery
• Jubilee and Tin Pan Alley : contrasting sounds of freedom
• The rise of ragtime and the blues
• The emergence of jazz
• Jazz at the Philharmonic : the jazz avant-garde and black classical expression
• Gospel, freedom songs, and the struggle for equality
• Black popular music as big business.

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ISBN

• 9780742564695 ((ebook))
• 074256469X
• 1282479431
• 9781282479432
• 0742558126
• 9780742558120

LCCN

2021698216

OCLC

276123229

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