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Who hears here? : on Black music, pasts and present

Title
Who hears here? : on Black music, pasts and present / Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. ; foreword by Tammy L. Kernodle ; afterword by Shana L. Redmond.
Author
Ramsey, Guthrie P.
Publication
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

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Additional Authors
  • Kernodle, Tammy L., 1969-
  • Redmond, Shana L.
Description
xvii, 287 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is an award-winning musicologist, music historian, composer, and pianist, whose prescient theoretical and critical interventions have worked to build a bridge between Black cultural studies and musicology. Representing twenty-five years of commentary and scholarship, these essays document Ramsey's search to understand America's Black musical past and present and to find his own voice as an African American writer in the field of musicology. This far-reaching collection embraces historiography, ethnography, cultural criticism, musical analysis, and autobiography, traversing the landscape of Black musical expression from sacred music to art music, and jazz to hip hop. Taken together, these essays and the provocative introduction that precedes them are testament to the legacy work that has come to define a field, as well as a rousing call to new readers to continue to ask the hard questions and write the hard truths"--
Series Statement
Phono: black music and the global imagination ; 1
Subject
  • African Americans > Music > History and criticism
  • Popular music > Social aspects > United States
  • Musicology > United States > History
  • African Americans > Music
  • Musicology
  • Popular music > Social aspects
  • African Americans
  • Popular music
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : who hears here now? -- Cosmopolitan or provincial? : ideology in early black music historiography, 1867-1940 -- Who hears here? : black music, critical bias, and the musicological skin trade -- The pot liquor principle : developing a black music criticism in American music studies -- Secrets, lies and transcriptions : new revisions on race, black music and culture -- Muzing new hoods, making new identities : film, hip-hop culture, and jazz music -- Afro-Modernism and music : on science, community, and magic in the Black Avant-Garde -- Bebop, jazz manhood and "piano shame" -- Blues and the ethnographic truth -- Time is illmatic : a song for my father, a letter to my son -- A new kind of blue : the power of suggestion and the pleasure of groove in Robert Glasper's black radio -- Free jazz and the price of black musical abstraction -- Jack Whitten's musical eye -- Out of place and out of line : Jason Moran's eclecticism as critical inquiry -- African American music -- Onward : an afterword by Shana L. Redmond.
Call Number
Sc E 23-180
ISBN
  • 9780520281837
  • 0520281837
  • 9780520281844
  • 0520281845
  • 9780520392182 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022010756
OCLC
1308409253
Author
Ramsey, Guthrie P., author.
Title
Who hears here? : on Black music, pasts and present / Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. ; foreword by Tammy L. Kernodle ; afterword by Shana L. Redmond.
Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Phono: black music and the global imagination ; 1
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Kernodle, Tammy L., 1969- writer of foreword.
Redmond, Shana L., writer of afterword.
Research Call Number
Sc E 23-180
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