Cross the water blues : African American music in Europe

Resource Information

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Label

Cross the water blues : African American music in Europe

Title remainder

African American music in Europe

Statement of responsibility

edited by Neil A. Wynn

Contributor

• Wynn, Neil A.

Editor

• Wynn, Neil A.

Subject

• Zwarten
• African Americans
• African Americans -- Europe -- Music | History and criticism
• African Americans -- Music
• African Americans -- Music -- Influence
• Blues
• Blues
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Europa
• Europa (geografie)
• Europe
• Jazz
• MUSIC -- Ethnomusicology
• MUSIC -- Genres & Styles | Blues
• Popular music
• Popular music -- Europe -- History and criticism

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Music

Language

eng

Summary

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 consider the reception and influence of black music on a number of different European audiences, particularly in Britain, but also France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The essayists approach the subject through diverse historical, musicological, and philosophical perspectives. A number of essays doc

Member of

• American made music series
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

780.89/9607304

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

ML3488

LC item number

.C76 2007eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

American made music series