Lift every voice the history of African-American music /

• Main Author: Peretti, Burton W. 1961-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2009.
• Series: African-American history series.
• Subjects: African Americans > Music > History and criticism.; MUSIC > Ethnomusicology.; African Americans > Music.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

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 centur...

Table of 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.