Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s-1920s)

ISBN-13: 9780815328759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 326 str.

Eileen J. Southern; Josephine Wright

Opis

This lavishly illustrated book brings together for the first time over 250 paintings, engravings, and drawings that depict scenes of music, dance, religious practice, and storytelling in the everyday lives of blacks in their own, private social world. Over 120 artists are represented, including such eminent nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American painters as Thomas Eakins, Charles Demuth, Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, and William Sidney Mount, as well as lesser-known but important artists. The story of African-American music and culture is told visually through this wonderful collection of images that is certain to fascinate students and fans of traditional African-American culture.

Recenzje

"The importance of this work thus extends beyond musicians to sociologists and Americanists...The work of two major figures in music history, this volume is recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above." -- Choice
"Must Read." -- Today's Books
"A valuable visual supplement to more traditional histories of the period." -- Booklist

Spis treści

Part I: The Colonial-Fedaralist Eras The African Legacy Everday Slave Life in the United States Part II: The Antebelum Era Church and ritual Leisure time in the Negro Quarters Part III: The Postbellum Era The Black Teacher as Institution Everyday Live after Emancipation

O autorze

Eileen Southern is Professor Emerita of Music and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author or editor of several books on African-American music, including The Music of Black Americans: A History, Readings in Black American Music, and Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians. She lives in Queens, NY.
Josephine Wright is Professor of Music and Black Studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She is coeditor (with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.) of New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern, and coauthor (with Eileen Southern) of African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance: 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography. She lives in Wooster, OH.