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Following the Drums : African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee /

"Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee is an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music form. John M. Shaw follows the music from its roots in West Africa and early American militia drumming to its prominence in African American communiti...

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Autor principal: Shaw, John M., (John Michael) 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • A note on sources
  • Introduction: Black fife and drum music and previous scholarhip
  • "To drum for the fun of the thing": African American drumming and fife and drum music before and during the Civil War
  • "The inevitable fife and drum": Fife and drum music, benevolent societies, and Black political organizing in Tennessee during Reconstruction
  • "These things must have their day": Fife and drum music, benevolent societies, and Black political organizing in Tennessee
  • "So important a part of the machinery": Black fife and drum music in Tennessee during Redemption
  • "Nerve-torturers and wholesale dispensers of discord": Black fife and drum music in Tennessee during the nadir and segregation
  • "Like a muffled, rumbling heartbeat": The rediscovery and disappearance of Black fife and drum music in Tennessee
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.