Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black MusicUniversity of Chicago Press, 2003 - 417 pages What is black music? For some it is a unique expression of the African-American experience, its soulful vocals and stirring rhythms forged in the fires of black resistance in response to centuries of oppression. But as Ronald Radano argues in this bracing work, the whole idea of black music has a much longer and more complicated history-one that speaks as much of musical and racial integration as it does of separation. |
Contents
Preface | xi |
Telling Stories Telling Lies Revisionist Listening and the Writing of Music History | 1 |
Resonances of Racial Absence Black Sounding Practices Prior to Negro Music | 45 |
First Truth Second Hearing Audible Encounters in Antebellum Black and White | 101 |
Magical Writing The Iconic Wonders of the Slave Spiritual | 160 |
Of Bodies and Soul Feeling the Pulse of Modern Race Music | 226 |
A Nations Gift | 274 |
Notes | 283 |
Index | 375 |
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