Blues, Funk, Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Hip Hop, and Rap by Meadows Eddie S.;

Author:Meadows, Eddie S.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Arts
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2010-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

Global studies

789. N.A. “Tokyo’s Round Mound of Sound.” Ebony, October 1976, 113.

Details the dissemination of African American music by an Air Force sergeant in Tokyo who developed a wide following by playing disco, rhythm and blues, and soul music on his radio show.

790. N.A. “Soul Explosion Rocks Land of Rising Sun.” Ebony, July 1975, 42.

Covers American soul music artists who have toured Japan (e.g. The Three Degrees, The Four Tops, the Stylistics) and local groups like The Finger Five and the Soul Mates who have been influenced by American soul music.

791. Browne, Kimasi Lionel John. “‘Soul or Nothing’: The Formation of Cultural Identity on the British Northern Soul Scene.” PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005.

Research focuses on a working-class British subculture that has adopted African American cultural products as their own cultural expression. Documents obscure African American soul music from Motown and other record labels and its affective work in forming emotional, social, economic and cultural identity in the predominantly male, white and working-class Northern Soul scene in England from 1967 to around 2005. Fieldwork was conducted in these “underground” communities in England, Wales and the Republic of Ireland.

792. Garland, Phyl. “Soul to Soul.” Ebony, June 1971, 79.

Touted as a return to the roots of African American music, the Soul to Soul concert was held in Accra, Ghana in 1971. The cultural exchange (featuring Roberta Flack, Eddie Harris, Les McCann and Wilson Pickett) was a huge success; the concert was also filmed.

793. Nowell, David. Too Darn Soulful: The Story of Northern Soul. London: Robson Books, 2001.

A thorough discussion of the British dance scene. The book is permeated with interviews and facts, and describes the social context that spawned the British love of African American popular music from the 1960s to 2001. The interviews cover the fans’ love of artists from the Motown era to contemporary artists like Fatboy Slim.

794. Wright II, Jeffrey Marsh. “‘Russia’s Greatest Live Machine’: Disco, Exoticism, and Subversion.” Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007.

In 1978 European disco group Boney M gave ten concerts in Moscow. Despite being the guests of the government, the group was censored because they performed “Rasputin,” one of their biggest hits, a signifier of “Russianness” (rather than “Sovietness”). The government deemed the song unacceptable for performance or release. The author’s musical analysis coupled with the Soviet rejection of the song revealed a confluence of musical signification, exoticism, and the relationship of music and politics.

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