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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaw, John M., (John Michael) 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Music and race.
Fife and drum corps music.
Fife and drum corps.
African Americans > Music.
African American musicians.
Musique et race > États-Unis > Histoire.
Musiciens noirs americains > Tennessee > Entretiens.
Fifre et tambour, Musique de > Tennessee > Histoire et critique.
Music and race > United States > History.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
African American musicians > Tennessee > Interviews.
Fife and drum corps music > Tennessee > History and criticism.
Fife and drum corps > Tennessee > History.
United States.
Tennessee.
Interviews.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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