商品簡介
Conyers (Black studies, U. of Nebraska, Omaha) provides a chapter on criticism which introduces the theme of the book: that an Afrocentric approach is the most appropriate one for understanding African American culture and tradition. Contributors (all but two are academics, in Black studies, music, musicology, and ethnomusicology) of the remaining 17 papers consider jazz and rap from this standpoint, with topics including jazz antecedents, the jazz style of Blue Mitchell, jazz guitar, the social roots of jazz, jazz musicians in postwar Europe and Japan, jazz expressions in dance and literature, rap from a jazz perspective, and African American life as seen in jazz and rap. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
James L. Conyers, Jr., is a winner of the Cheikh Anta Diop Ankh Award for Distinguished Research in the Discipline of African American Studies. He is the director of the African American Studies Program and university professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston.