Following the Drums (eBook)

African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee

John M. Shaw (Autor)

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2022 | EPUB SINGLE
298 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-3956-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A recovery and celebration of a once-mighty, now-vanished Tennessee musical legacy

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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 communities during the time of Reconstruction, both as a rallying tool for political militancy and a community music for funerals, picnics, parades, and dances.

Carefully documenting the music's early uses for commercial advertising and sports promotion, Shaw follows the strands of the music through the nadir of African American history during post-Reconstruction up to the form's rediscovery by musicologists and music researchers during the blues and folk revival of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although these researchers documented the music, and there were a handful of public performances of the music at festivals, the story has a sad conclusion. Fife and drum music ultimately died out in Tennessee during the early 1980s.

Newspaper articles from the period and interviews with music researchers and participants reawaken this lost expression, and specific band leaders receive the spotlight they so long deserved. Following the Drums is a journey through African American history and Tennessee history, with a fascinating form of music powering the story.

Autor

John M. Shaw is an ethnomusicologist with an emphasis in musics of the African diaspora. He received his PhD from the University of Memphis in 2024.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2022
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Zusatzinfo: 26 b&w illustrations; 2 musical examples
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American History • african american identity • African American music • African American Musicians • african american politics • Baseball • benevolent societies • Bengt Olsson • Black American identity • Black fife and drum music • Blues and folk revival • Brass Bands • Broadnax brothers • Civil War • Community music • disappearance of fife and drum music • drum and fife • Early American newspapers • Ed Young • Ethnomusicology • fife and drum corps • Independent Pole Bearers • Memphis • military drumming • music and race • Music History • musicology • Nadir • Nashville • National Cemetery Riot • North Mississippi • Ossie Broadnax • Political Polarization • racial tension • Reconstruction era music • reconstruction era politics • Segregation • Sons of Ham • Tennessee History • Tennessee music • white response to fife and drum music
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-3956-0 / 1496839560
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-3956-5 / 9781496839565