Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. è un musicologo di spicco il cui lavoro approfondisce l'intricata relazione tra la cultura nera e le forme musicali, tracciando un percorso dal bebop all'hip-hop. La sua scrittura offre una profonda analisi degli stili musicali e della loro risonanza culturale, esplorando spesso come la musica rifletta e plasmi momenti sociali e storici. La ricerca di Ramsey illumina il ruolo vitale che la musica nera svolge nel plasmare paesaggi artistici e sociali più ampi. Attraverso le sue estese pubblicazioni e il suo ruolo di fondatore e redattore dell'influente blog Musiqology.com, Ramsey è diventato una voce cruciale per la comprensione e la celebrazione della storia della musica nera.
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.