Black Music of Two Worlds: African, Caribbean, Latin, and African-American Traditions"Black Music of Two Worlds is a classic text showing the vast influence of African music on musical cultures throughout the world. First published in 1972, the book forecast today's interest in world music and the cross-pollination of musical cultures. In this new edition, the author has thoroughly revisited the text, adding new information about recent musical styles. The book begins with a study of African roots, and then shows how these musics were preserved and transformed on the North American continent, in the Caribbean, and in South and Central America. It then traces the flow of musical styles back from the New World to Africa. This is the only book to show the pervasive influence of African styles on a wide variety of musics, from traditional folk and blues to jazz to salsa, calypso, reggae, and rap. Book jacket."--Jacket |
Contents
The First AfroAmerican Styles | 37 |
4 | 93 |
From Spirituals to Blues | 157 |
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African elements African music African-American African-derived Afro-American music Afro-Cuban America areas ballads bands Bantu basic bass beat biguine black music Brazil Brazilian British call-and-response called calypso Caribbean Carnival chachachá common complex Congo Congolese creole Cuba Cuban music cults cultural cumbia dance music dancers developed Dominican Republic drummer drums early European example fact fiddle folk music Folkways French Ghanaian gospel groups guitar Haiti Haitian highlife highly important improvised influence instruments islands Jamaican jazz large number Latin major melody ments merengue musical bow musicians Negro neo-African music Nigerian nineteenth century Ocora Original Music Orleans pattern percussion Photo phrases piano played popular music Puerto Rican ragtime recorded reggae religious rhythm rhythmic Rounder rumba samba singing slaves solo songs sound South Spanish spirituals strong styles sung survival tamboritos tango techniques tone traditional Trinidad Trinidadian trumpet tune United urban verse vocal West African World Yoruba zouk