Recently added articles from Black Music Research Journal:
Interpreting the African-American musical past: a dialogue.(college professors Samuel Floyd and Ronald Radano )
Mar 22, 2009; ... The following dialogue between Samuel Floyd and Ronald Radano developed from a series of written exchanges and conversations over the course of the summer of 2008. It was prompted by Floyd's essay "Black Music and Writing Black Music History: American Music and Narrative Strategies," which ...
Sound, voice, and spirit: teaching in the black music vernacular.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The study of African-American music and culture flourished during the twentieth century. Its varied approaches and perspectives earned its inclusion as a vibrant area of interest in the study of American music as well as its respectability in the academy. Prior to the 1960s, the bulk of ...
Reggae in Cuba and the Hispanic Caribbean: fluctuations and representations of identities.(cultural identity and reggae music)
Mar 22, 2009; ... I vividly recall when, in 1993, I was introduced to a small group of Rastafarians in a suburban and apparently poor and marginalized neighborhood southeast of Havana. (1) That moment was the beginning of my very frequent contacts with that group. Around the block from the house of one of ...
Werner Jaegerhuber's Messe sur les airs vodouesques: the inculturation of Vodou in a Catholic mass.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Werner Jaegerhuber's Messe sur les airs vodouesques is an exceptional creation due to the unprecedented integration of Haitian Vodou melodies in a Catholic mass. (1) The composition of the Messe was begun in 1947 and completed in 1953. Its relatively long period of gestation suggests that ...
Signifyin(g) Salvador: professional musicians and the sound of flexibility in Bahia, Brazil's popular music scenes.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Over the past twenty-five years, popular music scholarship has benefited from an ever-increasing diversity of approaches. Even so, in-depth studies that address music as not only a creative endeavor but also a form of work are less common. (1) In this article, I investigate flexibility in ...
Fela's foundation: examining the revolutionary songs of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and the Abeokuta market women's movement in 1940s western Nigeria.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's afrobeat occupies a pivotal position in Nigeria's musical continuum and socio-political discourse. Through Fela, a new medium of social and political criticism was unearthed for the critical mass of Nigerians in the 1970s. Although Nigeria was experiencing what would ...
Can jazz be rid of the racial imagination? Creolization, racial discourses, and semiology of music.
Sep 22, 2008; ... French ethnomusicologist Bernard Lortat-Jacob likes to proclaim: "Music is always much more than music" (Lortat-Jacob 1996). In the same vein, one could declare that today "black music is always much more than black music." If by black music we mean a diversity of genres that appeared in ...
Books and articles on black music.(Becoming: Blackness and the Musical Imagination)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Articles on Black Music in North America and the Circum-Caribbean in Major Music Journals, 1990-2007 Included in this bibliography are articles on music created by or performed by people who identify themselves as "black" and who are from North America or the Circum-Caribbean ....
"When we send up the praises": race, identity, and gospel music in Augusta, Georgia.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... James Brown, "Godfather of Soul" and social activist. The Swanee Quintet, a gospel group that in its heyday headlined at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Springfield Baptist Church, one of the oldest independent African-American Baptist churches in the United States. Paine College, an academic ...
Black pop songwriting 1963-1966: an analysis of U.S. top forty hits by Cooke, Mayfield, Stevenson, Robinson, and Holland-Dozier-Holland.(Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield, William Stevenson, Smokey Robinson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Black songwriter-performers such as Fats Domino, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry achieved success on the U.S. pop charts (1) as leading contributors to the development of 1950s rock and roll. Rock and roll's impact had waned by the late 1950s, however, and white songwriter-producers ...
Black diasporic encounters: a study of the music of Fela Sowande.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Fela Sowande is now generally acknowledged as the most important twentieth-century West African composer of concert music and performer of jazz. Born in Oyo, western Nigeria, in March 1905, he went to London in 1934 and enrolled as an external candidate at the University of London and the ...
Chappie Willet, Frank Fairfax, and Phil Edwards' Collegians: from West Virginia to Philadelphia.
Mar 22, 2007; ... In the spring of 1934, the Chicago Defender ("Detroit Likes Them" 1934) and Philadelphia Tribune ("Chappie Willet" 1934) ran a publicity photo of "Chappie Willet and His Greystone Ballroom Orchestra." The image not only provides one of the few glimpses of jazz composer and arranger Francis ...
The politicization of kwaito: from the "party politic" to party politics.(music and politics in South Africa)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Kwaito--the most important music genre and cultural innovation to emerge in postapartheid South Africa--is often described as explicitly apolitical. Essentially a type of dance music, kwaito in its most common form is music "after the struggle." Most kwaito songs are composed of ...
Mode, melody, and harmony in traditional Afro-Cuban music: from Africa to Cuba.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Afro-Cuban traditional music constitutes one of the richest musical heritages of the Americas and has received a commensurate amount of scholarly attention. Published research on Afro-Cuban music has tended to focus on drumming (Amira and Cornelius 1992), biography (Velez 2000), relations ...
Errata.(Correction notice)
Sep 22, 2006 ... [The following corrects the example that appeared on pages 181-182 of BMRJ vol. 25 1/2.--Ed.] Example 6. Count ...
Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2006; ... That this issue of BMRJ addresses a single broad subject is the result of happy coincidence: the almost simultaneous receipt of submissions that collectively brought together a number of issues related to the African diaspora in the circum-Carribean. Usually, thematic issues are the result ...
The mulatta, the bishop, and dances in the Cathedral: race, music, and power relations in seventeenth-century Puerto Rico.(Fray Francisco Padilla)(Report)
Sep 22, 2006; ... At the beginning of the twentieth century, Cayetano Coll y Toste, a Puerto Rican physician and historian, wrote "Los bailes de la Catedral" (The Dances in the Cathedral). In it, Fray Francisco Padilla, bishop of Puerto Rico, writes to the king of Spain in 1691: <Pre>The fathers ...
"Joe'i Korsou?" (who is the true Curacaoan?): a musical dialogue on identity in twentieth-century Curacao.(Report)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Meaning is what gives us a sense of our own identity, of who we are and with whom we 'belong'--so it is tied up with questions of how culture is used to mark out and maintain identity within and difference between groups. --Stuart Hall (1997, 3) African diasporic ...
The rhythmic component of afrocubanismo in the art music of Cuba.(Report)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Afrocubanismo was an aesthetic trend in art music, focusing on the recognition, assimilation, and validation of African cultural features present in Cuban society. The new ethos found expression in the works of the Grupo Minorista, a seminal group of composers with an emergent ethnic ...
Mass culture, commodification, and the consolidation of the Afro-Peruvian festejo.(Report)
Sep 22, 2006; ... There are two souls that exist in the contemporary world, those of revolution and decadence .... [T]he consciousness of the artist is the agonizing circus of struggle between the two spirits. An understanding of this struggle sometimes, most of the time, escapes the very artist. But ...