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Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop

Ramsey, Guthrie P., Jr.

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Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop

This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family gatherings with food and dancing, and jam sessions at local nightclubs. This lays the foundation for a brilliant discussion of how musical meaning emerges in the private and communal realms of lived experience and how African American music has shaped and reflected identities in the black community. Deeply informed by Ramsey's experience as an accomplished musician, a sophisticated cultural theorist, and an enthusiast brought up in the community he discusses, Race Music explores the global influence and popularity of African American music, its social relevance, and key questions regarding its interpretation and criticism. Beginning with jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel, this book demonstrates that while each genre of music is distinct--possessing its own conventions, performance practices, and formal qualities--each is also grounded in similar techniques and conceptual frameworks identified with African American musical traditions. Ramsey provides vivid glimpses of the careers of Dinah Washington, Louis Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, Cootie Williams, and Mahalia Jackson, among others, to show how the social changes of the 1940s elicited an Afro-modernism that inspired much of the music and culture that followed.

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Title of ebook: Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop
ISBN: 9780520900905
Publisher: University of California Press
Internet download file size: 1584 kb
Released online for download: 03-01-2003
Author of eBook: Ramsey, Guthrie P., Jr.

Race Music

Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop

Chapter One

Daddy's Second Line

Toward a Cultural Poetics of Race Music

History, because it is an intellectual and secular production, calls for analysis and criticism. Memory installs remembrance within the sacred; history, always prosaic, releases it again. Memory is blind to all but the group it binds.... There are as many memories as there are groups.... Memory is by nature multiple and yet specific; collective, plural, and yet individual. History, on the other hand, belongs to everyone and to no one, whence its claim to universal authority. Pierre Nora, "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire"

Cultural memory, obviously a subjective concept, seems to be connected with cultural forms-in the present case, music, where the "memory" drives th ... read full excerpt from Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop ebook