The Transformation of Black Music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I: Black Music and the African Diaspora
Chapter One: Out of Africa: Setting Sail from the Motherland
Chapter Two: Making of the African Diaspora: Ships on the Oceans
Chapter Three: The Diaspora's Concert Worlds: Europe and the Americas
Chapter Four: Isles of Rhythm: The Cinquillo/Tresillo Complex in the
Circum-Caribbean
Chapter Five: Ties that Bind: Myth and Ritual in the Circum-Caribbean and
Beyond
PART II: Case Studies
Chapter Six: Pip's Tambourine: Stuckey's Revelations of Hidden Sources in
Melville's Moby Dick
Chapter Seven: Git on Board, Lil' Chillun: Children and Music in the Diaspora
(Melanie Zeck)
Chapter Eight: The Movement: Black Identities and the Paths Forward
Chapter Nine: Afro-modernism and Music: On Science, Community, and Magic
in the Black Avant-Garde (Guthrie Ramsey Jr.)
Chapter Ten: Africa and the Trope of the Return
Epilogue
Appendix A Excerpt from Ring Shout
Appendix B Index to Performers and Composers of Art/Classical Music
in The Transformation
Appendix C Figures and Institutions from the First Black Renaissance
Bibliography
Index

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Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors Samuel A. Floyd, Melanie Zeck, and Guthrie Ramsey brilliantly discuss how the music has blossomed, permeated present traditions, and created new practices. As a companion to the ground-breaking The Power of Black Music, this text brilliantly situates emerging, morphing, and influential black musics in a broader framework of cultural, political, and social histories. Grappling with subjects frequently omitted from traditional musical texts, The Transformation of Black Music is guided by more than just the ideals of inclusivity and representation. This work covers overlooked topics that include classical musicians of African descent, and builds upon the contributions of esteemed predecessors in the field of black music study. Providing a sweeping list of figures rarely included in conventional music history and theory textbooks, the text elucidates the findings of ethnomusicologists, cultural historians, Americanists, Africanists, and anthropologists, and weaves these accounts into a powerful and informative narrative. Taking its readers on a journey - one that has never been attempted in a single volume alone - this book reflects the musical phenomena generated by forced African migration and collective memory, and considers the kinds of powerful stories that these musics were meant to tell. Filling in critical musical and historical gaps previously ignored, authors Floyd, Zeck, and Ramsey infuse an engaging musical dialogue with a deeper understanding of the interrelationships between black musical genres and mainstream music. The Transformation of Black Music will solidify not only the inestimable value of black musics, but also the importance and relevance of black music research to all musical endeavors.

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Professor Floyd's last major work stands with Amiri Baraka's Blues People, Albert Murray's Stomping the Blues and Thompson's Rash of the Spirit as one of the most elucidating studies of African music and its legacy

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