Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s-1920s)

by Eileen J. Southern, Josephine Wright

Overview

This lavishly illustrated book brings together for the first time a significant body of imagery devoted to the traditional culture of the African-American slave.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815328759
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/28/2000
Series:	Music in African American Culture Series , #1
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eileen Southern is Professor Emerita of Music and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author or editor of several books on African-American music, including The Music of Black Americans: A History, Readings in Black American Music, and Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians. She lives in Queens, NY.
Josephine Wright is Professor of Music and Black Studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She is coeditor (with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.) of New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern, and coauthor (with Eileen Southern) of African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance: 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography. She lives in Wooster, OH.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Colonial-Fedaralist Eras The African Legacy Everday Slave Life in the United States Part II: The Antebelum Era Church and ritual Leisure time in the Negro Quarters Part III: The Postbellum Era The Black Teacher as Institution Everyday Live after Emancipation

Editorial Reviews

"The importance of this work thus extends beyond musicians to sociologists and Americanists...The work of two major figures in music history, this volume is recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above." — Choice
"Must Read." — Today's Books
"A valuable visual supplement to more traditional histories of the period." — Booklist

From the Publisher

Bringing together a body of imagery devoted to the culture of African- Americans, this book includes approximately 250 paintings, engravings, and drawings which depict scenes of music, dance, religious practice, and storytelling in the everyday lives of African-Americans. Approximately 120 artists are represented, including Charles Demuth, Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and William Sidney Mount. Southern (music and Afro-American studies, Harvard University, emerita) and Wright (music and Black studies, College of Wooster) focus on identifying, describing, and analyzing the cultural art forms and activities that lie at the roots of African-American traditional culture as represented in the pictorial record. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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