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Article: Sound, voice, and spirit: teaching in the black music vernacular.(Report)
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- Black Music Research Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2009
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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 studies on black music focused on field recording collections ranging from worksongs and spirituals to the ruralblues and addressed questions regarding its continued connections to an African past. (1) As such, scholars often characterized African-American music in terms of selected features that were, by varying degrees, present or absent in Western European music. For example, ...
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