Black Music Research Journal articles from March 2001

Black Music Research Journal archives from March 2001

The aesthetics of Duke Ellington's suites: the case of Togo Brava.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... One of the most controversial aspects of all the critiques of Ellington concerns the aesthetic value of his great works; from Creole Rhapsody onward, his suites have been the subject of a lively debate that ultimately addresses the very...

La melodie vaudoo--voodoo art songs: the genesis of a nationalist music in the Republic of Haiti.
March 22, 2001... In 1945, the Haitian composer Werner Jaegerhuber (1900-1953) published a set of six art songs entitled Complaintes Haitiennes that is without precedent in the literature of art song. They achieve their unique status by virtue of the fact that...

Aural archetypes and cyclic perspectives in the work of John Coltrane and ancient Chinese music theory.
March 22, 2001... The shaman is, then, a cosmically instructed man. His initiation is appropriate to the outer forms of his existence, yet bears an archetypal stamp. --Stephen Larsen (1988, 81) The following work, by relating musical constructs with...

Sounds of the "Third Way": identity and the African Renaissance in contemporary South African popular traditional music.
March 22, 2001... "It is in the production of audiences that the political and social reality of art can be found." --John Fiske (1989) Many of you will have already remarked on the word traditional in the title of this article and perhaps prepared...