The transformation of black music : the rhythms, the songs, and the ships that make the African diaspora

by Samuel A. Floyd Jr.

Other authorsGuthrie P. Ramsey (Author.), Melanie Zeck (Author.)
PDF, 2017

Original publication date

2017

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

ISBN

9780195307245

Notes

CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I: Black Music and the African Diaspora
1. Out of Africa: Setting Sail from the Motherland
2. Making of the African Diaspora: Ships on the Oceans
3. The Diaspora's Concert Worlds: Europe and the Americas
4. Isles of Rhythm: The Cinquillo/Tresillo Complex in the Circum-Caribbean
5. Ties that Bind: Myth and Ritual in the Circum-Caribbean and Beyond

PART II: Case Studies
6. Pip's Tambourine: Stuckey's Revelations of Hidden Sources in Melville's Moby Dick
7. (Melanie Zeck)
8. The Movement: Black Identities and the Paths Forward
9. Afro-modernism and Music: On Science, Community, and Magic in the Black Avant-Garde (Guthrie Ramsey Jr.)
10. Africa and the Trope of the Return

Epilogue
Appendix A Excerpt from
Appendix B Index to Performers and Composers of Art/Classical Music in The Transformation
Appendix C Figures and Institutions from the Bibliography
Index
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