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From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta : how West African standards of aesthetics have shaped the music of the delta blues
- Title
- From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta : how West African standards of aesthetics have shaped the music of the delta blues / by Dr. Pascal Bokar Thiam, University of San Francisco ; foreword by NEA jazz master, composer & pianist Randy Weston.
- Author
- Thiam, Pascal Bokar
- Publication
- San Diego, CA : Cognella, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc F 19-13 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JNF 17-82 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Weston, Randy, 1926-2018
- Description
- xii, 140 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), colour maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta explores how West African standards of aesthetics and sociocultural traits have moved into mainstream American culture and become social norms. This is an ideal text for use in related Jazz History, African Studies, Sociology, and History (16th-19th century and Harlem Renaissance) courses. I was curious to know why African Americans (and the country as a whole, for that matter) began clapping on beats two and four, and why we'd get dirty looks if we were caught clapping on the wrong beat. I had a desire to know why the identity of the music of our nation, with its majority population of European descent, had the musical textures, bent pitches, and blue notes of Africa. I wondered why a sense of swing developed here that was closer in syncopation to African culture than to the classical music of Vienna or the Paris Opera. And finally, I wanted to know why our nation's youth moved suggestively on the dance floor with their hips--movements that are closer in aesthetics to African dance than to ballet. The journey began on the banks of the mighty Niger River [Publisher description]
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Music.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134).
- Call Number
- Sc F 19-13
- ISBN
- 9781634871051
- 1634871057
- 9781634872676
- 1634872673
- 9781634871068
- 1634871065
- OCLC
- 931930448
- Author
- Thiam, Pascal Bokar, author.
- Title
- From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta : how West African standards of aesthetics have shaped the music of the delta blues / by Dr. Pascal Bokar Thiam, University of San Francisco ; foreword by NEA jazz master, composer & pianist Randy Weston.
- Publisher
- San Diego, CA : Cognella, 2015.
- Edition
- Revised first edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134).
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Weston, Randy, 1926-2018, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 19-13JNF 17-82