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Oliver, Sylvester Walker, Jr.

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African-American music traditions in Northeast Mississippi.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	African-American music traditions in Northeast Mississippi./
Author:	Oliver, Sylvester Walker, Jr.
Description:	668 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-09, Section: A, page: 3742.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9705703
ISBN:	9780591125054

African-American music traditions in Northeast Mississippi.
Oliver, Sylvester Walker, Jr.

African-American music traditions in Northeast Mississippi. - 668 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-09, Section: A, page: 3742.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Memphis, 1995.

This study examines and describes the role of religious and secular oral music traditions among the African-American communities in six counties of Northeast Mississippi. The study is divided into four distinct parts: (1) an ethnography of the African-American community, (2) the religious music traditions, (3) the secular music traditions, and (4) a brief history of the famed Rust College Singers' impact on the region. In addition, a summary chapter with conclusions and recommendations for future study is provided.

ISBN: 9780591125054Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

African-American music traditions in Northeast Mississippi.
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520 $a This study discusses the emergence and disappearance of various religious and secular music traditions and the social contexts in which they were formed. I focused in-depth on religious music traditions such as gospel choirs, gospel quartets, shape-note hymnody, spirituals, Dr. Watts tunes, revival and baptismal songs. The secular music traditions described include blues, string bands, fife and drum bands and the fiddle and banjo traditions.
520 $a Fourteen music transcriptions with stylistic analysis of religious and secular music performances from the Northeast Mississippi region have been provided. The study describes several African-American music traditions that are in a perpetual state of evolution and change. Blues and gospel music are the most popular music traditions found in the Northeast Mississippi region.
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