Black Music Research Journal articles from September 1997

Black Music Research Journal archives from September 1997

SHADOW PLAY: THE SPIRITUAL IN DUKE ELLINGTON'S "BLACK AND TAN FANTASY".
September 22, 1997... On the Seventh Day, God created the spiritual. The Garden of Eden: a lawn outside an antebellum Southern white church, where a group of slaves has secretly gathered to hear a Sunday morning church service. Huddled there, they passed the...

LET THE GOOD TIMES UNROLL: MUSIC AND RACE RELATIONS IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA.
September 22, 1997... Laissez les bon temps roulez, or "Let the good times roll," is often heard at musical events, parties, festivals, and other upbeat events of both black Creoles and Cajuns living in Southwest Louisiana. Black Creoles are black persons living in...

IDEOLOGY AND AURALITY IN THE VERNACULAR TRADITIONS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC (CA. 1890-1950).
September 22, 1997... ... nothing more clearly affirms one's "class," nothing more infallibly classifies, than tastes in music. Pierre Bourdieu (1984, 18) It is often difficult to identify precisely the impact of social history on music...

PRINCIPLES OF RHYTHMIC INTEGRATION IN AFRICAN DRUMMING.
September 22, 1997... Rhythm in African music has been a subject of much interest to ethnomusicologists (see Kauffman 1980). While it would be generally agreed that much has been accomplished in the common effort to explain "exactly what is the African treatment of...

CREATIVE PRACTICE IN AFRICAN MUSIC: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN THE SCRUTINY OF AFRICANISMS IN DIASPORA.
September 22, 1997... The quest for the meaning of various aspects of African music has taken center stage for many Africanists from the humanities and social sciences.(1) To attain this objective in the field of ethnomusicology, new trends of inquiry focus on the...