American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, fr

Includes CD with "music from artists in Edgecombe, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Nash, Pitt, Wayne and Wilson Counties."

African American Music provides an introduction to all of the richness and diversity of African American musical styles, focusing on the distinct characte4istic

Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation is a collection of twenty-one essays by leading scholars, surveying vital themes in the hi

Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performer