Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface 1. Daddy's Second Line: Toward a Cultural Poetics of Race Music 2. Disciplining Black Music: On History, Memory, and Contemporary Theories 3. "It's Just the Blues": Race, Entertainment, and the Blues Muse 4. "It Just Stays with Me All of the Time": Collective Memory, Community Theater, and the Ethnographic Truth 5. "We Called Ourselves Modern": Race Music and the Politics and Practice of Afro-Modernism at Midcentury 6. "Goin' to Chicago": Memories, Histories, and a Little Bit of Soul 7. Scoring a Black Nation: Music, Film, and Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop 8. "Santa Claus Ain't Got Nothing on This!": Hip-Hop Hybridity and the Black Church Muse Epilogue: "Do You Want It on Your Black-Eyed Peas?" Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

About the Author

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.

Reviews

"Through a historical yet anecdotal treatment, Ramsey explores the rich milieu of messages imbedded in black music through the 20th century. His breakthrough is his effort to find the meanings of the music through explorations of memory, history and theory. . . . Ramsey weaves his own rich musical history through the text."--Rickey Vincent, "Washington Post Book World