1st Edition

From Jubilee to Hip Hop Readings in African American Music

By Kip Lornell Copyright 2010
    416 Pages
    by Routledge

    416 Pages
    by Routledge

    From Jubilee to Hip Hop includes 36 reading selections that underscore the breadth and variety of African American musical culture.  Each of these selections relates something notable and interesting about African American musical culture since the Emancipation,  whether it is Marian Anderson's recollection of the legendary 1939 DAR Constitution Hall debacle, or John Chilton's story of the impact of Louis Jordan's song, "Caldonia."

    1) "Adrift on Stormy Seas: The Jubilee Singers and Their Songs" by J.B.T. Marsh  2) "Richards and Pringle's Original Georgia Minstrels and Billy Kersands, 1889-1895" by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff  3) "The Virginia Jubilee Singers in Bourke, Australia" (Anonymous)  4) "Conclusion", African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Story of Folk Traditions by Cecelia Conway  5) "War on Ragtime" & "Suppression of 'Ragtime'" (Anonymous)  6) "Of The Sorrow Songs," from the Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. Du Bois  7) "The Nineteenth Century Origins of Jazz" by Lawrence Gushee  8) "Marshall Lullaby" by Kip Lornell and Charles Wolfe  9) "The Scene and the Players in New York" by Tom Riis  10) "Jelly Roll Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton  11) "William Marion Cook" by Cary B. Lewis  12) "Ma Rainey and the Minstrels" by Charles Edward Smith  13) "Black Sacred Harp Singing in Southeast Alabama" by Hank Willett  14) "A Negro Explains 'Jazz'"  (Anonymous)  15) "Paul Robeson, Musician" by Doris McGinty and Wayne Shirley  16) "Conflict and Resolution in the Life of Thomas Andrew Dorsey" by Michael Harris  17) "Fats Waller (Comedy Tonight)" by Gary Giddins  18) "'Dean of Afro-American Composers' or 'Harlem Renaissance Man': The New Negro and the Musical Poetics of William Grant Still" by Gayle Murchison  19) "Easter Sunday" by Marian Anderson  20) "Caldonia" by John Chilton  21) "Elder Beck's Temple" by William Russell  22) "T-Bone Blues: T-Bone Walker's Story in His Own Words" by T-Bone Walker  23) "The Impact of Gospel Music on the Secular Music Industry" by Portia K. Maultsby  24) "Singing in the Streets of Raleigh, 1963: Some Recollections" by Clyde Appleton  25) "Motown Calls 'The Rock & Roll Kid'" by Dennis Coffey  26) "Respect: 1964-1965" by Rob Bowman  27) "Clifton Chenier: 'They Call Me The King'" by Ben Sandmel  28) The Art of The Muscle: Miles Davis as American Knight and American Knave" by Gerald Early  29) "Evaluating Ellington" by Mark Tucker  30) "The P-Funk Empire" by Rickey Vincent  31) "Hip-Hop, Puerto Ricans and Ethno-racial Identities in New York" by Raquel Rivera  32) "Daughters of the Blues" by Cheryl Keys  33) "Media Interventions" by Maureen Mahon  34) "Black Artistic Invisibility: A Black Composer Talking 'bout Taking Care of the Souls Of Black Folks While Losing Much Ground Fast" by William Banfield  35) "Stepping Out an African Heritage" by Elizabeth Fine  36) "Rhythm and Bullshit?: The Slow Decline of R & B" by Mark Anthony Neal

    Biography

    Kip Lornell