African American Music : An Introduction

Acknowledgments xi Editors and Contributors xv Introduction 1(6) Mellonee V. Burnim Portia K. Maultsby Intellectual History 7(26) Portia K. Maultsby Mellonee V. Burnim Susan Oehler Part I Genres 33(358) Secular Folk Music 35(16) Dena J. Epstein Rosita M. Sands Religious Music 51(28) Mellonee V. Burnim Blues 79(48) Chronological Overview 79(17) David Evans The Blues in Transcultural Contexts 96(31) Susan Oehler Ragtime 127(18) Ingeborg Harer Jazz 145(40) Chronological Overview 145(22) Ingrid Monson Interpreting Jazz 167(18) Travis A. Jackson Musical Theater 185(26) Thomas L. Riis Art/Classical Music 211(34) Chronological Overview 211(19) Josephine R. B. Wright Interpreting Classical Music 230(15) Olly Wilson Rhythm and Blues 245(26) Portia K. Maultsby Soul 271(22) Portia K. Maultsby Funk 293(22) Portia K. Maultsby Disco and House 315(16) Kai Fikentscher Techno 331(22) Beverly May Hip-Hop and Rap 353(38) Dawn M. Norfleet Part II Issues of Mass Mediation 391(100) The Music Industry 393(38) The Popular Music Industry 393(23) Reebee Garofalo The Gospel Music Industry 416(15) Mellonee V. Burnim Profiles of Record Labels 431(60) Motown 431(21) Charles Sykes Stax 452(18) Rob Bowman Philadelphia International 470(21) John A. Jackson Part III Issues of Gender 491(94) Women in African American Music 493(92) Gospel 493(15) Mellonee V. Burnim Blues 508(20) Daphne Duval Harrison Jazz 528(13) Sherrie Tucker Women-Identified Music 541(17) Eileen M. Hayes Rock 558(27) Maureen Mahon Part IV Musical Agency 585(58) African American Music as Resistance 587(56) Antebellum Period 587(11) Lawrence W. Levine Civil Rights Movement 598(26) Bernice Johnson Reagon Post-Civil Rights Period 624(19) Mark Anthony Neal Glossary 643(8) Bibliography 651(34) Discography/Videography 685(10) Index 695