New perspectives on music : essays in honor of Eileen Southern / edited by Josephine Wright with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.

Other author Wright, Josephine, 1942- editor.
Other author Floyd, Samuel A., Jr., 1937-2016, editor.
Other author Southern, Eileen honoree.
Format Book
Publication InfoWarren, MI : Harmonie Park Press, 1992.
Descriptionxxii, 561 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.
African Americans--Music. --History and criticism.

Cover title Eileen Southern
SeriesDetroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music ; no. 11
Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music ; no. 11. ^A281112
Contents Part 1. Introduction. Eileen Jackson Southern: quiet revolutionary / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. -- Part 2. New perspectives on early music. A glimpse of the lost years: Spanish polyphonic song, 1450-70 / David Fallows -- Ophelia's lute / John M. Ward -- On Veronica and Josquin / Howard Mayer Brown -- The mysterious chronometer of Davaux / Jan LaRue -- Part 3. New perspectives on American music. Traditions of Afro-American religious music. Originality in the 1801 hymnals of Richard Allen / J. Roland Braithwaite -- Black sacred song and the tune-family concept / Anne Dhu Shapiro -- Gospel blues: origin and history / Horace Clarence Boyer -- Traditions of concert music. The story of the Jubilee Singers: an introduction to its bibliographic history / Dena J. Epstein -- Charles Ives and the spiritual "In the morning"/Give me Jesus / H. Wiley Hitchcock -- Leslie Adams and the making of the opera Blake: an interview with the composer / Yvonne C. Williams -- Traditions of popular music and jazz. Music of the American dream: brass traditions and golden visions / Frank Tirro -- Pink Morton's theatre, Black Vaudeville, and the TOBA: recovering the history, 1910-30 / Thomas L. Riis -- Notes on jazz standards by Black authors and composers, 1899-1942 / Richard Crawford -- Traditions of the blues. The blues: a photographic essay / William Ferris -- Part 4. New perspectives on folk music traditions of the world. The heterogeneous sound ideal in African-American music / Olly Wilson -- The flower song festival at Lotus Mountain: a study in performance context / Rulan Chao Pian -- Part 5. New perspectives on women in music. Two virtuoso performers in Boston: Jenny Lind and Camilla Urso / Adrienne Fried Block -- Black women in classical music in Boston during the late nineteenth century: profiles of leadership / Josephine Wright -- Black women in the music of Washington, D.C., 1900-20 / Doris Evans McGinty -- Black women and American orchestras: an update / D. Antoinette Handy -- Thea Musgrave and the production of her opera Harriet, the Woman called Moses: an interview with the composer / Georgia A. Ryder -- Part 6. New perspectives on bibliographical research in Afro-American music. Research in Afro-American music, 1968-88, a survey with selected bibliography of the literature / Josephine Wright -- Appendix. The writings of Eileen Southern, editor of The Black Perspective in Music (1973-91) / compiled by Josephine Wright.
Abstract As editor of The Black Perspective in Music, Eileen Southern brought to her endeavors a rich musical background, a mind open to a wide range of social and cultural influences, and an impressive grounding in the varied facets of academic rigor. This festschrift pays tribute to a scholar's scholar with its selection of essays covering traditions in early music, African-American religious music, popular music and jazz, blues, folk music, women in music, and African-American studies.
Bibliography note"The writings of Eileen Southern": pages 517-528.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 481-515) and index.
LCCN 91047974

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Music Music Stacks ML55 .S6877 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold