Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation

Contents

• PART I: INTERPRETING MUSIC
• 1. Performing Blues and Navigating Race in Transcultural Contexts (Susan Oehler Herrick)
• 2. New Bottle, Old Wine: Whither Jazz Studies? (Travis A. Jackson)
• 3. The Politics of Race Erasure in Defining Black Popular Music Origins (Portia K. Maultsby)
• 4. Negotiating Blackness in Western Art Music (Olly Wilson)
• PART II: MASS MEDIATION
• 5. Crossing Musical Borders: Agency and Process in the Gospel Music Industry (Mellonee V. Burnim)
• 6. Industrializing African American Popular Music (Reebee Garofolo)
• 7. The Motown Legacy: Homegrown Sound, Mass Appeal (Charles E. Sykes)
• 8. Stax Records and the Impulse Toward Integration (Rob Bowman)
• 9. Uptown Sound-Downtown Bound: Philadelphia International Records (John A. Jackson)
• 10. "And the Beat Goes On": SOLAR-The Sound of Los Angeles Records (Scot Brown)
• 11. Tyscot Records: Gospel Music Production as Ministry (Tyron Cooper)
• PART III: GENDER
• 12. Voices of Women in Gospel: Resisting Representations (Mellonee V. Burnim)
• 13. Are All the Choir Directors Gay? Black Men's Sexuality and Identity in Gospel Performance (Alisha Lola Jones)
• 14. Women in Blues: Transgressing Boundaries (Daphne Duval Harrison)
• 15. Jazz History Remix: Black Women from "Enter" to "Center" (Sherrie Tucker)
• 16. The Reception of Blackness in "women's music" (Eileen M. Hayes)
• 17. African American Women and the Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Genre in Rock 'n' Roll (Maureen Mahon)
• 18. "Ain't Nuthin' But a She Thang": Women in Hip Hop (Cheryl L. Keyes)
• PART IV: MUSICAL AGENCY-AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC AS RESISTANCE
• 19. The Antebellum Period: Communal Coherence and Individual Expression (Lawrence W. Levine)
• 20. Civil Rights Period: Music as an Agent of Social Change (Bernice Johnson Reagon)
• 21. The Post-Civil Rights Period: The Politics of Musical Creativity (Mark Anthony Neal)