Race Music

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Race Music

Author	: Guthrie P. Ramsey
File Size	: 48,8 Mb
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 22 November 2004
ISBN	: 9780520243330
Pages	: 296 pages

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Race Music by Guthrie P. Ramsey Book PDF Summary

Covering the vast and various terrain of African American music, this text begins with an account of the author's own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago. It goes on to explore the global influence and social relevance of African American music.

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Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. Yet, though we may speak of white or black music, rock or rap, sounds constantly leak

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