Cross the water blues : African American music in Europe

Cross the water blues : African American music in Europe /

This unique collection of essays examines the flow of African American music and musicians across the Atlantic to Europe from the time of slavery to the twentieth century. In a sweeping examination of different musical forms--spirituals, blues, jazz, skiffle, and orchestral music--the contributors c...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Wynn, Neil A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007
Edition:First edition.
Series:American made music series.
Subjects:
African Americans > Europe > Music > History and criticism.
African Americans > Music > Influence.
Popular music > Europe > History and criticism.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • "Why I sing the blues" : African American culture in the transatlantic world / Neil A. Wynn
  • Taking the measure of the blues / Paul Oliver
  • Even philosophers get the blues : feeling bad for no reason / David Webster
  • Spirituals to (nearly) swing, 1873-1938 / Jeffrey Green
  • Black music prior to the first world war : American origins and German perspectives / Rainer E. Lotz
  • Fascination and fear : responses to early jazz in Britain / Catherine Parsonage
  • "Un saxophone en mouvement"? : Josephine Baker and the primitivist reception of jazz in Paris in the 1920s / Iris Schmeisser
  • Paul Robeson's British journey / Sean Creighton
  • Preaching the gospel of the blues : blues evangelists in Britain / Roberta Freund Schwartz
  • Whose "Rock Island line"? : originality in the composition of blues and British skiffle / Bob Groom
  • The blues blueprint : the blues in the music of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin / Rupert Till
  • "The blues is the truth" : the blues, modernity, and the British blues boom / Leighton Grist
  • Lowland blues : the reception of African American blues and gospel music in the Netherlands / Guido van Rijn
  • The blues in France / Robert Springer
  • Cultural displacement, cultural creation : African American jazz musicians in Europe from Bechet to Braxton / Christopher G. Bakriges.

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