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The Lyrics in African American Popular Music - Le texte dans la musique populaire afro-américaine - Proceedings of Metz (September, 29 th -30 th 2000) - Actes du colloque international de Metz (29-30 septembre 2000)

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The first international conference specifically devoted to the lyrics in African American popular music was held in Metz in September 2000 and gathered scholars and experts on blues, gospel song and rap. The eleven contributions, three of which in French, contained in this volume turn their attention to structure and thematic and expressive content in the three genres. Their conclusions, more than ever, allow us to see black popular music as the ongoing oral history of African Americans.
Tenu à Metz en septembre 2000, le premier colloque international consacré spécifiquement au texte dans la musique populaire afro-américaine a réuni chercheurs universitaires et experts autour du blues, du gospel et du rap. Les onze communications, dont huit en anglais, qui constituent cet ouvrage se penchent plus particulièrement sur la structure et le contenu thématique et expressif de ces trois genres musicaux. Leurs conclusions amènent plus que jamais le lecteur à percevoir la musique populaire afro-américaine comme l'histoire orale du peuple noir aux Etats-Unis.

List of contents

Contents: Robert Springer: Text, Context and Subtext in the Blues - David Evans: Traditional Blues Lyrics and Myth: Some Correspondences - Paul Oliver: "You have another thought coming to you": Vaudeville Duets and the Blues - Chris Smith: Reachin' Pete and Johnny Nab: The Police in Commercial Blues Recordings to 1943 - Guido Van Rijn: The Dollar Has the Blues: Deflation and Inflation in African-American Blues Songs - Luigi Monge: Blindness Blues: Visual References in the Lyrics of Blind Pre-war Blues and Gospel Musicians - Robert Sacré: O Mother, Where Art Thou? "Mother" in the Lyrics of African-American Religious and Secular Music - Earnest Lamb: From Coon to Gangsta: the African American Identity Crisis Represented in Popular Music - André J.M. Prévos: La langue des rappeurs: paroles et argot noir américain - Eric Gonzalez: Intertextualité, paratextualité et sampling: morceaux choisis de Public Enemy - Nathalie Karanfilovic: L'ambiguïté du discours "gangsta".

About the author

The Editor: Robert Springer is Professor of American Studies at the University of Metz, France. He is the author of various scholarly articles and of Le blues authentique, son histoire et ses thèmes (1985), whose English translation, with André Prévos, appeared as Authentic blues: its history and its themes (1995), and of Fonctions sociales du blues (1999). Le responsable de la publication: Robert Springer est professeur de civilisation américaine à l'Université de Metz. Il est l'auteur de divers articles parus dans des revues universitaires ainsi que de Le blues authentique, son histoire et ses thèmes (1985) - traduction américaine, avec André Prévos, Authentic blues: its history and its themes (1995) - et de Fonctions sociales du blues (1999).

Product details

Assisted by Robert Springer (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English, French
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.06.2016
 
EAN 9783906766614
ISBN 978-3-906766-61-4
No. of pages 216
Dimensions 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
Weight 310 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore

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