Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. est un musicologue de premier plan dont l'œuvre explore la relation complexe entre la culture noire et les formes musicales, retraçant un parcours du bebop au hip-hop. Son écriture offre une analyse profonde des styles musicaux et de leur résonance culturelle, explorant souvent comment la musique reflète et façonne les moments sociaux et historiques. L'érudition de Ramsey met en lumière le rôle vital que joue la musique noire dans la formation de paysages artistiques et sociaux plus larges. Grâce à ses nombreuses publications et à son rôle de fondateur et rédacteur du blog influent Musiqology.com, Ramsey est devenu une voix essentielle pour la compréhension et la célébration de l'histoire de la musique noire.
Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century's most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds. His expansive musicianship, riveting performances, and inventive compositions expanded the bebop idiom and pushed jazz musicians of all stripes to higher standards of performance.
Covers the various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. This title offers an account of the author's own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family gatherings with food and dancing, and jam sessions at local nightclubs.
Introduction : who hears here now? -- Cosmopolitan or provincial? : ideology in early black music historiography, 1867-1940 -- Who hears here? : black music, critical bias, and the musicological skin trade -- The pot liquor principle : developing a black music criticism in American music studies -- Secrets, lies and transcriptions : new revisions on race, black music and culture -- Muzing new hoods, making new identities : film, hip-hop culture, and jazz music -- Afro-Modernism and music : on science, community, and magic in the Black Avant-Garde -- Bebop, jazz manhood and "piano shame" -- Blues and the ethnographic truth -- Time is illmatic : a song for my father, a letter to my son -- A new kind of blue : the power of suggestion and the pleasure of groove in Robert Glasper's black radio -- Free jazz and the price of black musical abstraction -- Jack Whitten's musical eye -- Out of place and out of line : Jason Moran's eclecticism as critical inquiry -- African American music -- Onward : an afterword by Shana L. Redmond.