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Including more than 400 entries, these three volumes provide a thematic overview of the rich and varied history of African American music. The content range is eclectic: musical genres (classical, jazz, gospel), famous musicians (Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson), and locales (Chicago, New Orleans). In addition, the work covers other wide-ranging topics like black-owned music publishing companies, slave music, and transgendered performers, to name a few. The entries r...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 7 Up—This impressive work covers a wide variety of movements ("Motown Sound," "Slave Music of the South"); musicians ("Afrika Bambaataa," "Ice Cube"); and phenomena ("Appropriation of African American Music," "Black-Owned Music Publishing Companies"). E...Log In or Sign Up to Read More