Black Music Research Journal articles from March 2004

Black Music Research Journal archives from March 2004

Editor's introduction.
March 22, 2004... [The] difference between white and black Appalachians... lies in visibility vs. invisibility. --Allen 1974, 42 [Black Appalachian music has] as yet hardly been touched by serious documentation and analysis. --Whisnant 1977, 108...

Directory of African-Appalachian musicians.
March 22, 2004... The aim of this guide is to fix significant positions for musical activity onto specific portions of the landscape, with a view to assisting future research. It is not intended to fulfill the tourist expectation of finding, say, that "Blind Boy...

Predicting black musical innovation and integration: the 1850 Mance Index for Appalachia.
March 22, 2004... Imagine, if you will, that you are an open-minded musical enthusiast whose only exposure has been to the classical European tradition, with no knowledge of North American music of the last century or before. You are suddenly exposed to the...

Preliminary bibliography of best-known black Appalachian musicians.
March 22, 2004... African-American musicians have lived in, contributed to, and influenced Appalachian music since the introduction of the banjo and African work songs and chants through modern blues, jazz, gospel, pop, and rock music. While some of these...