african american music

A collection of critical essays on jazz that examine the creative process, the impact the jazz culture had on African-American artists and musicians, and the careers of John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, and other jazz musicians of the 1960s.

Contains texts of twenty-three spirituals, traditional songs, street cries, chants, hand-clapping songs, and contemporary songs for children, with an appendix discussing the origins of each song and showing the melodic line.

Using archival footage, historic photographs, filmed performances, and recorded interviews with musicians and historians, this ten part documentary series explores the history of jazz and its influence on American music.

Explores the influence Motown has had on America in respect to music and racial relationships and identity, looking at the social climate of the 1950s and 1960s and the rise of youth culture that set the stage for Berry Gordy and his business.

Covers the music, the musicians, the instruments, and music's place in cultural history. Presents a history of each musical style, from its roots to its expression along with glimpses of the lives of leading composers and musicians. This volume focuses on the history of Gospel music.

Traces the history of African-American music from bebop to hip-hop, discussing how the African-American experience has often been chronicled through various forms of music.

Traces the history of American soul music, profiling the innterconnections among the genre's personalities, events, and achievements.

A one-volume reproduction of "The Book of American Negro Spirituals," and "The Second Book of Negro Spirituals," featuring arrangements by J. Rosamond Johnson, and including an introductory essay by African-American poet James Weldon Johnson.

Collection of 150 rap lyrics from D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince to Queen Latifah.

Provides a history of black musicians in America and the music genres associated with them, beginning in the 1840s and continuing through the early 1990s.