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What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists

Book by Eric Porter; University of California Press, 2002

Subjects:

African American Jazz Musicians, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Jazz--History And Criticism

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...and was among a handful of African American musicians to get work in Hollywood studios...specifically, the financial position of African American musicians in the music...amount of monetary promise to African American musicians, particularly...
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Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison

Book by Saadi A. Simawe; Garland, 2000

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African American Musicians In Literature, African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, African Americans--Music, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Music And Literature--History--20th Century, Music In Literature, Musical Fiction--History And Criticism

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...Morrison is forced to concede that African American musicians are the artists who could best...surprise us, as influential African American cultural commentators...sorrow songs as central to early African American folk culture; however...
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Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers

Book by W. Royal Stokes; Oxford University Press, 2005

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Jazz Musicians--Interviews

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some South African musicians there. That was a great experience. I havent been to Europe in the past few years. I mentioned the Congressional Black Caucus...
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Psychology for Musicians: Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

Book by Andreas C. Lehmann, John A. Sloboda, Robert H. Woody; Oxford University Press, 2007

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Music--Psychological Aspects, Musicians--Psychology

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Cross-Cultural Perspective: African Drummers and Triple Meters...deafness). Even professional musicians do not always possess the...previously been rated by European musicians. The systematic agreement...In a second experiment, 11 African drummers were asked to learn...categories, allowing the musician to perform only what he or...
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The Careers of British Musicians, 1750-1850: A Profession of Artisans

Book by Deborah Rohr; Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Music--Great Britain--18th Century--History And Criticism, Music--Great Britain--19th Century--History And Criticism, Music--Social Aspects--Great Britain, Musicians--Great Britain

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...The vast majority of musicians earning such degrees during this period were church musicians, but there were a few...sometimes to foreign musicians; examples include the...Poland, the son of an African father and a European...

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Journal Articles on: african musicians

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Directory of African-Appalachian Musicians

Journal article by Bob Eagle; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 24, 2004

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African American musicians--History, African American musicians--Performances, Sound recordings

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...Virginia banned the African slave trade in 1778...It is logical that musicians from Virginia would...influence by other black musicians on black Virginia-born musicians. This suggests that...adherents to the African Methodist Episcopal...
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Black Musicians from Slavery to Freedom: An Exploration of an African-American Folk Elite and Cultural Continuity in the Nineteenth-Century Rural South

Journal article by Paul A. Cimbala; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 80, 1995

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African American entertainers--History, African American musicians--History, African Americans--Folklore, legends, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...continuity of African-American folk...Another slave musician impressed a Northern...these activities, musicians identified themselves...be considered musicians. However, in...instrumentalist, musician and "musicianer...of slavery and African-American music...the role of the musician. Gifted bondsmen...treatments of African-American music...importance of black musicians but their primary...
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Paying Their Dues: Buffalo's African American Musicians Union, Local 533, A.f.m

Journal article by Richard McRae; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 20, 1996

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African Americans, Black culture, Blacks, Culture, Industry, Labor unions, Minority & ethnic groups, Music industry, Organizations

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...Their Dues: Buffalos African American Musicians Union, Local 533...Musicians, International Musician. On the Sunday afternoon...Jacksons statements that African-American musicians were denied admission...experiences as a young musician, recently out of...conflicts between these musicians and Local 43, which...
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Preliminary Bibliography of Best-Known Black Appalachian Musicians

Journal article by Mark Freed; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 24, 2004

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African American music--Analysis, African Americans--Analysis, African Americans--Music, Bibliographies, Bibliography, Black musicians--Performances, Musicians, Black--Performances

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...Musicians. by Mark Freed African-American musicians have...Directory of Black Appalachian Musicians," which helped me discover...about three or more included musicians or containing a general discussion...Sources for individual musicians and groups follow the general...categorized alphabetically by musician, then by category of material...
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The Prairie View Co-eds: Black College Women Musicians in Class and on the Road during World War Ii

Journal article by Sherrie Tucker; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 19, 1999

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African American college students--History, African American women musicians--History, Jazz music--History, Prairie View A and M University--History, Women musicians--History

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...classically trained African-American musicians. One can imagine...sixteen black female musicians delivered more...danceable music. For African-American audiences...substitution eclipsed the musicians college affiliation...refused to call African Americans anything...

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Magazine Articles on: african musicians

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Africa's Modern: Griot; Perhaps One of the Greatest Stars of World Music Is the Celebrated Guinean Musician Mory Kante. His Music Is a Colourful Blend of Inspirational African Vocals Performed over a Pulsating Western Beat. Recently in the UK to Promote His Latest Album, Sabou, He Spoke to Beverley Andrews about Success, London Audiences and above All, His Love of Music

Magazine article by Beverley Andrews; New African, February 2005

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African musicians, Kante, Mory--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Kante, Mory--History, Kante, Mory--Personal narratives, Musicians, African

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...Is the Celebrated Guinean Musician Mory Kante. His Music Is...of Griots the hereditary musicians of Africa, for me there...time the celebrated Malian musician Salif Keita was their star...discovered the kora, the African lute that comes from the...first single recorded by an African musician to sell one million...for a younger generation of Africans to follow. His music is...
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Papa Wemba Bounces Back: One of Africa's Most Famous and Beloved Musicians, the Congolese Papa Wemba Caused Shock and Dismay When a French Court Found Him Guilty of 'People Smuggling' and Sentenced Him to 30 Months in Jail. Milan Vesely Profiles Papa Wemba's Tempestuous Career

Magazine article by Milan Vesely; African Business, January 2005

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Musicians--Biography, Wemba, Papa

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...Africas Most Famous and Beloved Musicians, the Congolese Papa Wemba...the 55-year-old King of African Hip says he came "face to...employing European and African musicians in his band. This successful...they also were Papa Wemba musicians--even though none of the...opposed to his son becoming a musician, rather wanting him to become...
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Ode to John Coltrane: A Jazz Musician's Influence on African American Culture

Magazine article by Gerald Early; The Antioch Review, Vol. 57, Summer 1999

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Coltrane, John--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz music--Personalities, Jazz musicians--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz--Personalities

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...Coltrane: A Jazz Musicians Influence on African American Culture...flamboyant jazz musician as Dizzy Gillespie...any other jazz musician in that school...talents of the musicians around him as Duke...several jazz musicians, black and white...any noted jazz musician since Bechet...
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Sierra Leone: Same Soup; the Loudest Voice of Political Dissent in Sierra Leone Is Not Coming from Opposition Parties or the Media; It Is Coming from Musicians, Reports Alfred Romann from Freetown

Magazine article by Alfred Romann; New African, March 2006

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Musicians--Demonstrations and protests, Political protest--Analysis, Sierra Leone--Political aspects, Sierra Leone--Social aspects

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...Media; It Is Coming from Musicians, Reports Alfred Romann from...Sierra Leones best known musicians have built themselves by...themselves," Emmerson told New African. "Im from the masses...person directly, rather the musicians use metaphors or folk tales...journalist, radio DJ and musician. Savage recorded the album...
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Eric Clarke & the Pioneer Generation: Clayton Goodwin on the Potentially "Star" Musician Who Refused to Be a Star and to Whom, Even Today, All the Big Names of the UK Music Industry Defer. Eighty-Year-Old Eric Clarke Personifies a Generation That Was, in Itself, a "Star" and That Does Not Deserve to Be Forgotten

Magazine article; New African, January 2009

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Black musicians--Biography, Clarke, Eric--Biography, Musicians, Black--Biography

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...the Potentially "Star" Musician Who Refused to Be a Star...still respected by those musicians whom we, ourselves, respect...whereas other, inferior musicians are remembered--because...encyclopaedia of Jamaican (and African-American) music. Follow...of another once celebrated musician or singer who has passed...

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Newspaper Articles on: african musicians

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Bellingen's Global Carnival Warming Up; Popular African Musician Baaba Maal Part of Hot Line-Up

Newspaper article; Daily Examiner (Grafton, Australia), September 9, 2010

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Global warming, Maal, Baaba, Musicians

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Warming Up; Popular African Musician Baaba Maal Part of...worlds most exciting musicians to the town, but this...hugely popular African musician Baaba Maal will be...being a remarkable musician, Baaba Maal is also...artists in general and musicians in particular, who...
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Culture: Hugh on the Horn of a Dilemma; for More Than 30 Years the Career of Exiled South African Musician Hugh Masekela Was Strongly Identified with the Struggle against Apartheid. Ahead of His Concert at Symphony Hall Tomorrow Night, He Talks to Terry Grimley about His Musical Aspirations for a Democratic Africa

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 15, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Career of Exiled South African Musician Hugh Masekela Was Strongly...year. Theyre very efficient musicians, and the synergy was so good...advised him to stay close to his African roots, and from the mid...I had grown up with South African dance bands at a time when...
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Sout African Musician to Perform Concert

Newspaper article by Ann Piccininni; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 25, 2008

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Concerts

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Sout African Musician to Perform Concert. by Ann Piccininni...have planned for Saturday, when South African recording artist Vusi Mahlasela performs...Theyll talk with students at South African schools, help with peer development...
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Superstar Ignores Our Daughter Says Mum; LEAMINGTON WOMAN IN MAINTENANCE ROW WITH SOUTH AFRICAN MUSICIAN

Newspaper article by Paul Hargrave; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), August 13, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...LEAMINGTON WOMAN IN MAINTENANCE ROW WITH SOUTH AFRICAN MUSICIAN. by Paul Hargrave A SUPERSTAR South African musician who fathered a daughter with a...not to send any money. He told a South African newspaper: "Carol felt threatened that...
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Musicians Come to the Aid of African Mission Work

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 23, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Musicians Come to the Aid of African Mission Work. Byline: Serena Markstrom...latest in a string of Christian musicians from Eugene to make it onto a national...Wednesday, Cozmic Pizza The five musicians of Organic Flood, who hail from...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african musicians

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African Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...drums. The remarkable aspect of African polyrhythm is the discernible coherence...and guitars were adopted by many African musicians; their sounds were integrated...See A. M. Jones, Studies in African Music (2 vol., 1959); R...
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Simon, Paul

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...themes in Graceland (1986), one of the most popular albums of the decade, which featured several African musicians, including the South African choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo . His next album, The Rhythm of the Saints (1990), explored...
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Harlem

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...became the scene of increasing African-American migration from the...largest and most influential African-American community in the nation...theater, noted for performances by African-American musicians and entertainers. An extensive...
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Olatunji, Babatunde

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...established a group of expatriate African drummers, singers, and...intricate, powerful art of African drumming and chanting to...into Americas best-known African musician. He influenced numerous jazz and pop musicians with his performances and...
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Country and Western Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...areas, and they were further consolidated after musicians from various sections met and mixed during service...broadcast weekly from Nashville, Tenn. Many of the musicians have been influenced by African-American blues (see jazz ) and gospel music...

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