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In this collection of essays, interviews, and profiles, William Banfield reflects on his life as a musician and educator, as he weaves together pieces of cultural criticism and artistry, all the while paying homage to Black music of the last 40 years andbeyond. In Representing Black Music Culture: T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Banfield, William C., 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011.
Colección:African American cultural theory and heritage.
Temas:
Banfield, William C., > 1961-
Banfield, William C.
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Geschichte 2000-2010.
African American composers > Biography.
Composers > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Compositeurs noirs américains > Biographies.
Compositeurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
African American composers
African Americans > Music
Composers
Afroamerikanische Musik
United States
collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Music
Autobiographies
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Autobiographies.
Music.
Biographies.
Musique.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: Then:
  • 1: Growing up as a musician in Detroit
  • 2: Cass Tech High
  • 3: Boston (1979-1988)
  • 4: Making music, finding meaning (1989-2003)
  • Part 2: Now:
  • 5: Hope and new directions (2004)
  • 6: Slowly contemplating Boston (2005)
  • Move east: space, serenity, peace of mind and creativity, and an essay about arriving home
  • 7: Life lived east (2006)
  • 8: New essays (2006-2008)
  • Days with Ornette Coleman
  • Connecting jazz to contemporary culture: how are we making jazz culturally relevant?
  • iPodology: what are we being asked to plug into?
  • Hop ain't hip without the music (or what happened with the music in popular culture markets?)
  • Wrestling with a black aesthetic in contemporary living
  • Aesthetics of sales in the contemporary marketplace post-2007
  • Closing argument on hip-hop
  • Without fear of shame: the eighty-year-old debate
  • American idle?
  • Using your creative voices: an essay on race and artistic action
  • Culture of conflict and confrontation
  • Letter to my students
  • Out of the woods with Bobby McFerrin
  • There's something new there, but you have to find it
  • 9: Representing culture (2008)
  • Homage to mentors
  • Modern media music culture madness
  • Audacity in hope
  • Wow, mom, he looks like me (an Obama poem)
  • 10: Reckonings and recognitions (2009)
  • Alvin Ailey Dance Company and Sweet Honey in the rock
  • Letter to Dr Ysaye Barnwell
  • Michael dies
  • Beer summit
  • Great ones passing: Horace Boyer, George Russell, Hale Smith
  • 11: Closing comments on culture: entries and essays (2010)
  • Roots and reason series, concerts produced by Bill Banfield, interviewed by Leslie Mahoney, Berklee Faculty News
  • Warmest December
  • Don't use the J word: jazz connections to culture and meaning
  • Bicycling in Bangkok: considering condition, context, challenge, conflict, change, charge, cash, comfort, and complacency
  • Payoff: investing yourself in a multi-toned, voiced, angled, and cultured world (May 29, 2009)
  • Baking of American music culture
  • 12: Tag and Coda
  • Part 3: When Again:
  • 13: Artist photo profiles.

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