From Jubilee to Hip Hop: Readings in African American Music

Contents

• 1) "Adrift on Stormy Seas: The Jubilee Singers and Their Songs" by J.B.T. Marsh
• 2) "Richards and Pringle's Original Georgia Minstrels and Billy Kersands, 1889-1895" by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
• 3) "The Virginia Jubilee Singers in Bourke, Australia" (Anonymous)
• 4) "Conclusion", African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Story of Folk Traditions by Cecelia Conway
• 5) "War on Ragtime" & "Suppression of 'Ragtime'" (Anonymous)
• 6) "Of The Sorrow Songs," from the Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. Du Bois
• 7) "The Nineteenth Century Origins of Jazz" by Lawrence Gushee
• 8) "Marshall Lullaby" by Kip Lornell and Charles Wolfe
• 9) "The Scene and the Players in New York" by Tom Riis
• 10) "Jelly Roll Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton
• 11) "William Marion Cook" by Cary B. Lewis
• 12) "Ma Rainey and the Minstrels" by Charles Edward Smith
• 13) "Black Sacred Harp Singing in Southeast Alabama" by Hank Willett
• 14) "A Negro Explains `Jazz'" (Anonymous)
• 15) "Paul Robeson, Musician" by Doris McGinty and Wayne Shirley
• 16) "Conflict and Resolution in the Life of Thomas Andrew Dorsey" by Michael Harris
• 17) "Fats Waller (Comedy Tonight)" by Gary Giddins
• 18) "'Dean of Afro-American Composers' or `Harlem Renaissance Man': The New Negro and the Musical Poetics of William Grant Still" by Gayle Murchison
• 19) "Easter Sunday" by Marian Anderson
• 20) "Caldonia" by John Chilton
• 21) "Elder Beck's Temple" by William Russell
• 22) "T-Bone Blues: T-Bone Walker's Story in His Own Words" by T-Bone Walker
• 23) "The Impact of Gospel Music on the Secular Music Industry" by Portia K. Maultsby
• 24) "Singing in the Streets of Raleigh, 1963: Some Recollections" by Clyde Appleton
• 25) "Motown Calls 'The Rock & Roll Kid'" by Dennis Coffey
• 26) "Respect: 1964-1965" by Rob Bowman
• 27) "Clifton Chenier: `They Call Me The King'" by Ben Sandmel
• 28) The Art of The Muscle: Miles Davis as American Knight and American Knave" by Gerald Early
• 29) "Evaluating Ellington" by Mark Tucker
• 30) "The P-Funk Empire" by Rickey Vincent
• 31) "Hip-Hop, Puerto Ricans and Ethno-racial Identities in New York" by Raquel Rivera
• 32) "Daughters of the Blues" by Cheryl Keys
• 33) "Media Interventions" by Maureen Mahon
• 34) "Black Artistic Invisibility: A Black Composer Talking 'bout Taking Care of the Souls Of Black Folks While Losing Much Ground Fast" by William Banfield
• 35) "Stepping Out an African Heritage" by Elizabeth Fine
• 36) "Rhythm and Bullshit?: The Slow Decline of R & B" by Mark Anthony Neal