From Jubilee to Hip Hop: Readings in African American Music

Lornell, Kip

From Jubilee to Hip Hop includes 36 reading selections that underscore the breadth and variety of African American musical culture.  Each of these selections relates something notable and interesting about African American musical culture since the Emancipation,  whether it is Marian Anderson's recollection of the legendary 1939 DAR Constitution Hall debacle, or John Chilton's story of the impact of Louis Jordan's song, "Caldonia."

EAN

9780136013228

Publisher

Routledge

Published

12 August 2009

Pages

416