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In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is the major western music of the twentieth century. In showing why this is so, the author presents not only an account of African American music from its origins but also a more general consideration of the nature of the music act and of its function in human life. The two streams of discussion occupy alternate chapters so that each casts light on the other. The author offers also an answer to what the Musical Times called the seldom posed though glaringly obtrusive question: why is it that the music of an alienated, oppressed, often persecuted black minority should have made so powerful an impact on the entire industrialized world, whatever the color of its skin or economic status?

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title Music of the Common Tongue Survival and Celebration in African - photo 1
title:Music of the Common Tongue : Survival and Celebration in African American Music Music/culture
author:Small, Christopher.
publisher:Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin:0819563579
print isbn13:9780819563576
ebook isbn13:9780585371245
language:English
subjectAfrican Americans--Music--History and criticism, Music--United States--History and criticism, Music--Social aspects.
publication date:1998
lcc:ML3556.S65 1998eb
ddc:780/.89/96073
subject:African Americans--Music--History and criticism, Music--United States--History and criticism, Music--Social aspects.
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Music of the Common Tongue
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MUSIC/CULTURE
A series from Wesleyan University Press Edited by George Lipsitz, Susan McClary, and Robert Walser
Published titles
My Music by Susan D. Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil, and the Music in Daily Life Project
Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music by Robert Walser
Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West by Mark Slobin
Upside Your Head! Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue by Johnny Otis
Dissonant Identities: The Rock'n 'Roll Scene in Austin, Texas by Barry Shank
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America by Tricia Rose
Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital by Sarah Thornton
Music, Society, Education by Christopher Small
Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures by Frances R. Aparicio
Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology by Paul Thberge
Voices in Bali: Energies and Perceptions in Vocal Music and Dance Theater by Edward Herbst
A Thousand Honey Creeks Later: My Life in Music from Basie to Motownand Beyond by Preston Love
Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening by Christopher Small
Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music by Christopher Small
Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's 'Akhnaten' by John Richardson
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Music of the Common Tongue
Survival and Celebration in African American Music
Christopher Small
Page iv WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by University Press of New - photo 2
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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
1987 by Christopher Small
Preface 1998 by Christopher Small
All rights reserved
Originally published in Great Britain in 1987 by John Calder (Publishers) Ltd. and in the United States of America in 1987 by Riverrun Press Inc.
First University Press of New England/Wesleyan
University Press edition 1998
Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1
CIP data appear at the end of the book
Page v
To Neville Braithwaite,
who taught me what it was all about
and in grateful memory
of Edwin Mason,
who alone knew what I owed him
and of John Stevens,
for his courage and honesty,
no less than for his musicking
Page vii
Contents
Preface to the 1998 Edition
ix
Introduction
1
1
Africans, Europeans and the Making of Music
17
2
On the Ritual Performance
49
3
Rituals for Survival I
An Extatic Delight in Psalmody
81
4
On Cultures and Their Fusion
117
5
Styles of Encounter I
A Need in White Culture
137
6
On Value and Values
163
7
Rituals for Survival II
The Sheer Power of Song
191
8
On Literacy and Nonliteracy
223
9
Styles of Encounter II
Adjusting to White Culture
247
10
On Improvisation
281
11
Styles of Encounter III
A Lot of Loving Going On
311
12
On the Decline of a Music
341
13
Styles and Rituals
Wanting to Be Part of that Music
369
14
On Records and Rewards
395
15
Styles of Encounter IV
A Very Satisfactory Black-Music Circle
425
16
Confronting the Rational God
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