Description: This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Beginning with jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel, this book demonstrates that while each genre of music is distinct, each is also grounded in similar techniques and conceptual frameworks identified with African American musical traditions. Photos.
Review Quotes: "[An] interesting contribution to the ongoing debate on the origins and the specificities of African-American music. . . [that] brings new data and reflections on the interactions between musical creativity and sociopolitical context, as well as on the role of ideology in musical categorization. . . . insist[ing] on the diversity of African-American music . . . [as well as] demonstrating that it has never been stable and homogeneous."-- "Journal of the American Musicological Society"