From Jubilee to Hip Hop: Readings in African American Music

by Kip Lornell

From Jubilee to Hip Hop includes 36 reading selections that underscore the breadth and variety of African American musical culture. Each of these selections relates something notable and interesting about African American musical culture since the Emancipation, whether it is Marian Anderson's recollection of the legendary 1939 DAR Constitution Hall debacle, or John Chilton's story of the impact of Louis Jordan's song, "Caldonia."

Genres: Cultural

416 pages, Paperback

First published August 12, 2009

About the author

Kip Lornell is an ethnomusicologist and a professor at George Washington University. He is the author of many books about music in American culture.