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African American Music: An Introduction

by Mellonee V. Burnim

A survey of African American musical traditions

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A survey of African American musical traditions

Seventeen essays map African American music across sacred and secular genres, tracing the subject from slavery to the present. The collection’s historical span and range of musical forms make it an introduction to how these traditions can be studied through ethnographic analysis. The supplied description identifies a scholarly, essay-based approach, while leaving the individual genres and chapter topics unspecified.

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  • Readers seeking an introductory survey of African American music across historical periods.
  • Students and general readers interested in ethnomusicology and scholarly essays on music.
  • Those exploring sacred and secular musical traditions in the United States.

Themes

African American musicSacred and secular genresMusic and historyEthnomusicology

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Book overview

American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic

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