Mastodawn

Dispactké Nov 4, 2024

Quincy. Jones.

Titan.

#QuincyJones #africanamericanmusic #blackmusic

Tim Mocarski Jul 2, 2024

A review of a @domflemons album. #Music #MusicReview #AfricanAmericanMusic #History

https://timmocarski.substack.com/p/traveling-wildfire

Traveling Wildfire

a music review

Tim’s Substack

Petr Nuska Mar 16, 2023

#AcademicJob

Head of Collections – Archives of African American Music & Culture

@ Indiana University

The Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) at Indiana University, Bloomington seeks an innovative and highly motivated professional for the position of Head of Collections.

This full-time position will begin in spring or summer of 2023, depending on availability.

https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/14528

#AfricanAmericanMusic #Archives #LibraryScience #Ethnomusicology #Musicology

Academic Specialist, Head of Collections - Archives of African American Music & Culture

The Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC; https://aaamc.indiana.edu/) at Indiana University, Bloomington seeks an innovative and highly motivated professional for the position of Head of Collections. This full-time position will begin spring or summer 2023, depending on availability, and be appointed as an academic specialist. Established in 1991, the AAAMC is a repository of unique collections of primary and secondary source materials covering a wide range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions, primarily from the post-World War II era. Collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres including jazz, blues, spirituals, and gospel, as well as R&B and hip hop. The AAAMC also houses extensive materials related to the documentation of Black radio.The Head of Collections reports to the AAAMC Director and works collaboratively with the Digital Collections Archivist/Project Manager to acquire and process new collections, promote, and expand awareness of existing collections, nurture relationships with current and potential donors, engage communities within and beyond the university, and maintain currency with emerging trends and best practices in the field. An ALA-accredited Master’s Degree in Library or Information Science or Archival Studies is required, as is experience with archival accessioning, appraisal, arrangement, description, and finding aid creation. Preference will be given to applicants with subject knowledge of African American music genres, and experience managing music-related materials. H1B sponsorship is not available for this position.Applicants should apply online at https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/14528, submitting a resume and a statement which articulates their experience with archival accessioning, appraisal, arrangement, description, and finding aid creation. The statement should also address the applicant’s knowledge of African American music; 2) knowledge of confidentiality, privacy, intellectual property, and copyright issues related to archives, special collections, audio, video, print, and digital technologies; 3) their commitment to advancing underrepresented communities in archives as well as 4) their commitment to advancing equity and diversity in outreach and instruction. Applicants should also provide contact information (name, title, phone number, and email address) for three references.Indiana University is committed to building and supporting a diverse, inclusive, and equitable community of students and scholars. It is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will be evaluated based on individual qualifications. Indiana University prohibits discrimination based on age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.Review of applications will begin January 3, 2023; however, the search will remain open until the position is filled. Queries can be sent to Dr. Tyron Cooper, [email protected].

personally Dec 20, 2022

Hip Hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memo y and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s

The critical attempt to historicize hip hop dates at least to David Toop’s 1984 "Rap Attack: African Griots to New York Jive", a book written with journalistic immediacy and yet, as its subtitle suggests, one that situates rap reportage in the black musical "longue durée" but it wasn’t until the mid- 1990s that efforts toward an academic hip hop scholarship began in earnest, and it was then that ideas about the music’s methods and meanings as rooted in the black musical past became common currency. This view wasn’t surprising: a neat and untroubled line could be traced from the classic African American toasts to rap, and the use of digital sampling, whereby hip hop producers constructed their work from (black) music’s recorded back catalog, was equally suggestive for historically minded observers. This sampling practice, and its “historical” interpretation, form the central subject of this article.
Certainly, hip hop’s early scholars differed in their reasoning as to what the form’s use of old records meant for black music and history. Some positioned the practice as part of a linear, cultural-national tradition, sometimes shaded with essentialism. William Eric Perkins claimed, with totalizing confidence, that “sampling was and is hip hop’s ongoing link with history and tradition, including all of the African and African American musical genres.” a more modulated Kyra D. Gaunt contended that hip hop’s sampling was “the perfect medium for expressing the temporal culture-scape of who we are, and how we became, across time.”

https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.29.3.0277

#hiphop #jazz #culturalmemory #musicaltradition #africanamerican #1990s #sampling #musichistory #blackculture #hiphopscholarship #digital sampling #toasts #africanamericanmusic #essentially #temporalculture #constructivisttheorizations #vernaculars #politics #postmodernism #rhythmandblues #funk #rapmusic #samplingdebates #recordproduction #hiphopculture #musicindustry #copyrightlaw #publicdomain #intellectualproperty #musicappropriation #musicalintertextuality #remixculture #blackpopularculture