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Joan Cartwright, M.A.
President & CEO FYI COMMUNCATIONS, INC. 508 N.W. 1st Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 954-525-0022; 240-218-8379 (Efax) |
Email: jazzisus@aol.com |
AFRICAN AMERICAN BLUES AND JAZZ LECTURES | |||
To introduce students to the history of African American Blues and Jazz music and to the musicians who were innovative in creating and maintaining the tradition. Emphasis is on the emotional content and rhythmic elements of blues and jazz as well as the instrumentation | |||
Voice Guitar Harmonica |
Piano Bass Drums |
Trumpet Saxophone Trombone Flute |
Vibraphone Harp |
1. The Sign of the Blues
2. Jazz: The Unmasked Rhetoric
3. The Cultural Politics of Commercial Jazz
4. Women in Jazz
5. Jazzmen
6. So, You Want To Be A Singer: Music Business
Socialization into European culture and the ban placed on the use of drums resulting in the use of hands and feet for rhythm.
Religious conversion to Christianity and the practice of using spirituals for revolutionary purposes, e.g., the Underground Railroad, and for social comment about oppression, dislocation, poverty, despair and hope.