Part sourcebook and part survey of historic music scholarship, Music in Black American Life, 1945–2020 collects groundbreaking work that redefines our view of Black music and its place in American music history.
Contributors: Nelson George, Wayne Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, Eileen M. Hayes, Loren Kajikawa, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tammy L. Kernodle, Cheryl L. Keyes, Gwendolyn Pough, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mark Tucker, and Sherrie Tucker
| Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction / Tammy L. Kernodle 1. Chess Moves / Wayne Everett Goins 2. Nobody's Sweethearts: Gender, Race, Jazz, and the Darlings of Rhythm / Sherrie Tucker 3. The Genesis of Black, Brown and Beige / Mark Tucker 4. Black Women Working Together: Jazz, Gender, and the Politics of Validation / Tammy L. Kernodle 5. New Monastery: Monk and the Jazz Avant-Garde / Robin D. G. Kelley 6. Production Line (Excerpt) Nelson George 7. Hold My Mule: Shirley Caesar and the Gospel of the New South / Claudrena N. Harold 8. Let the Church Sing "Freedom" / Bernice Johnson Reagon 9. After the Golden Age: Negotiating Perspective / Eileen M. Hayes 10. The Development of the Rap Music Tradition / Cheryl L. Keyes 11. Hip-Hop Soul Divas and Rap Music: Critiquing the Love That Hate Produced / Gwendolyn Pough 12. "Young, Scrappy, and Hungry": Hamilton, Hip Hop, and Race / Loren Kajikawa Original Publications Contributors Index Back cover |"Each of these chapters unearth, explore, and explain ideas, facts, events, phenomena, and records that have been neglected, forgotten, ignored, falsified or were unknown. They invoke musicological contexts that are grounded in archival and ethnographical research that illuminates the evolution of black music-making as it shifts from the insularity of communal spaces to the public medium of popular culture and precipitated the aberration of racial, social, and gender norms."—Tammy L. Kernodle, from the Introduction|Laurie Matheson is the director of the University of Illinois Press and longtime editor of the series Music in American Life.