Black Music Research Journal articles from September 2000

Black Music Research Journal archives from September 2000

Editor's introduction.(European scholarship on black music)(Editorial)
September 22, 2000... This special issue features a series of articles representing contemporary European scholarship in the area of black music research. Identifying a particular place or region as the source of scholarly articles is an unexceptional practice in...

Voices of hate, sounds of hybridity: black music and the complexities of racism.
September 22, 2000... It is worth stating the obvious. The music of the African diaspora is not a recent import to Europe; rather, it has been an integral part of numerous European societies since the eighteenth century. In England, these sounds were introduced...

Eugene Stratton and early ragtime in Britain.
September 22, 2000... In 1869, the periodical London Society commented, "Good society hates scenes, votes every eccentricity of manners and demonstrativeness of demeanour bad form" (quoted in Cominos 1963, 42). This was a prevalent middle-class view in Victorian...

The "zinc-fence thing": when will reggae album covers be allowed out of the ghetto?
September 22, 2000... In this article, I explore some of the representations of Jamaican musicians (and of Jamaica) as they have appeared on album covers since reggae first began to reach an international audience in the early 1970s. Beginning with two ethnographic...

Black British cultural studies and the rap on gangsta.
September 22, 2000... The term gangsta rap started to gain currency in 1989. Its first American broadsheet appearance was in the Los Angeles Times (Hilburn 1989), when the controversial single "Gangsta, Gangsta" by N.W.A. (Niggaz with Attitude) was in Billboard's...

Celebration or pathology? Commodity or art? The dilemma of African-American expressive culture.
September 22, 2000... In the mid-1970s, Ralph Ellison and a white social historian shared a panel on blacks in Hollywood film. The historian analyzed in agonizing detail the demeaning role that Hollywood had assigned to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in a Shirley Temple...

The sound world of Art Tatum.
September 22, 2000... When a French journalist asked writer Andre Gide in 1905 whom he considered to be France's greatest poet, Gide responded "Victor Hugo, helas!" (quoted in Richardson 1976, 294). It became a celebrated remark and must rank as one of the most...