music

Profiles ten Native American musicians, including Cherokee vocalist Michael Bucher, Seminole flutist Mary Youngblood, Navajo punk rock band Blackfire, Cree country singer Shane Yellowbird, and others.

"An illustrated collection of African American spiritual songs"--OCLC.

Examines the role of African-American folk music in the aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance and in the political debates surrounding racial performance, social memory, and national identity during the era.

An unabridged republication of a 1940 text which provides an account of the music of the Shaker religious community, looking at songs, rituals, and dances.

Find out what piracy is, its history and how to avoid it.

Presents songs sung by black men and women as they toiled in our country's fields and factories, and on railroads, highways and prison gangs.

A history of American popular music, telling the story of how ragtime, jazz, and blues edged out more traditional genres in the years between 1843 and 1924, and identifying some of the performers who contributed to the hot music movement.

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.