Black Music Research Journal articles from September 2002

Black Music Research Journal archives from September 2002

Musicology and linguistics: integrating the phraseology of text and tune in the creative process.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... The implications of the analogous features of music and language for theory and method in the disciplines of musicology and linguistics have long been of interest to scholars. In a paper on "Sounds and Prosodies," originally published in 1948,...

Negotiating freedom: values and practices in contemporary improvised music.
September 22, 2002... Free improvisation is not an action resulting from freedom; it is an action directed towards freedom. --Davey Williams (1984, 32) A compromise between order and disorder, improvision is a negotiation between codes and their pleasurable...

Ethnicity, modernity, and retention in the Garifuna punta.
September 22, 2002... The Garinagu, commonly known as the Garifuna, are a people of West African and Amerindian descent who live along the Caribbean coast of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua and who share a common language, system of customs and beliefs,...

A thin blue line down central avenue: the LAPD and the demise of a musical hub.(Los Angeles Police Department )
September 22, 2002... Before Los Angeles's South Central had become indelibly linked in the public mind with gang wars and riots, its main strip, Central Avenue, boasted glamorous nightclubs and swinging dance halls that rivaled the great African-American music...

Black Kings: aesthetic representation in Carnival in Trinidad and London.
September 22, 2002... In this article, I present an analysis of different celebratory movements in African-derived Carnivals artfully woven together through the stigma of European colonization and the macabre stamp left on the regions of the world it colonized. The...

Hip-hop drumming: the rhyme may define, but the groove makes you move.
September 22, 2002... In this article, I investigate the use, creation, and manipulation of the drums in hip-hop. In most works on black popular music, whether referring to rock, jazz, blues, rap, or other genres, little attention is paid to the drummer beyond...