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  • ISBN: 0252071506
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  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press (August 12, 2003)
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Evidense presented in "Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music," show that by the Ante Bellum, Africans had expanded into many genre in music and dance. The treatment of these African genre as "primitive" was not intensional

Evidense presented in "Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music," show that by the Ante Bellum, Africans had expanded into many genre in music and dance. The treatment of these African genre as "primitive" was not intensional. Scholars of the period had agreed on the name of a secular "folk" song.

in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises

Awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J.

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Music in American Life. Dena J. Epstein classic work traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, enslaved people created expansive forms of music from the United States to the West Indies and South America.

Sinful Tunes and Spirituals book. Awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize. Details (if other): Cancel.

Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press Release date: 12 August 2003 ISBN-10 : 0252071506 ISBN-13: 9780252071508.

Classic study of black slave music in America. Epstein Sinful Tunes and Spirituals. Discover ideas about American Story. Sinful Tunes & Spirituals: Black Folk Music To The Civil War Spiritual music helped slaves through the brutality they suffered.

In her book entitled Sinful Tunes and Spirituals, Dena J. Epstein explores black folk music in the United States . This book also makes use of images to provide a supplemental visual aid to the reader to be able to picture the events and the parts of history that are described within it. Epstein explores black folk music in the United States up til the civil war. The tunes analyzed are all slave songs that have been notated on musical staff paper, something that is inherently separate from the traditio ns that black folk musicians established in their practice. Furthermore, there are tons of scores contained within the book, so if one wanted to attempt to recreate these songs in the present day, it would be possible to do so to some extent.

Her 1977 book on the topic, Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: black folk music to the Civil War, was awarded the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association. Among other findings, Epstein demonstrated that the banjo emerged from the African slave tradition rather. than rural white culture, a revelation that "shattered myths and sparked a remarkable revival of black string band music"

Awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association   From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises.   This classic work is being reissued with a new author's preface on the silver anniversary of its original publication.  
Reviews about Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: BLACK FOLK MUSIC TO THE CIVIL WAR (Music in American Life) (7):
Mamuro
Classic book that dispels the racist views which were previously promoted about the history of African American music in general, and the banjo in particular.
Qusicam
This book was a labor of love by Ms. Epstein. Well reasoned, written and thoroughly researched it represents a more accurate historical account the the Banjo found it's origins in Africa. Until this book was written the Banjo was though to be an instrument of European dissent. If you play the Banjo this book will send you on your way to historical accuracy.
Altad
Dena Epstein was a Chicago Librarian. She wasn't a paid musicologist, but she was determined to find out the story of African American music from the time we got off the slave ships until the Civil War. She emerged with a triumph.

No one who has not read this book really knows anything about African American, or for that matter American culture and music, worth knowing. Rather than the abstract dwelling on Africanism in this or that part of Black culture, she refutes the idea that the slaves were robbed of their culture she shows how the musical culture of West Africa was carried here and how it was modified and added to.

One of the most interesting aspects of Epstein's book for me is the record of the many different African instruments that were brought to the New World or were remade by Africans in the New World. The common idea that African instruments were limited to drums is refuted here strongly with her references to descriptions of different instruments found in the US and the West Indies. Along the way, Epstein was one of the first to reassert the AFricanness of the banjo and document it.

One interesting question which with the easiness of hindsight and futher research I raise is the issue of fiddling. Epstein documents that contrary to the popular stereotype that AFricans in the America were primarily banjoists or drummers, in the US until the point in the 19th Century when banjos became generally available and popular among most black and poor folks, African American musicians were most closely indentified with the fiddle. This is true not only in the US but in the West Indies.

Epstein does document how quickly after being "imported" African born musicians became excellent players of the fiddle, makers of fiddles, and even teachers of fiddling. She points out that the fiddle was so essential to the lives of planation African Americans that the question of whether the slave master should provide his slaves with a full time fiddler for slave dances was debated in circles who discussed how to manage slaves.

The question is really posed that such quick mastery of a very difficult instrument, and the rather rapid way it was used to play African based music could not be just a coincidence or a product of some kind of general African musical ability, but the product of retention of traditions that come from West African bowed instruments. Blacks who were fiddlers already in AFrica on African fiddle like instruments were enslaved, and their rapid progress another feature of transmission of AFrican culture into this country.

Of course, I am looking back from advances pioneered by Epstein and those who followed her.

Read this books and celebrate that triumph and learn what must be known about Black music and American culture.
MrDog
This is a very detailed, in-debth study of early Afro-American music. Dena Epstein spent decades tracking down original source material. Her book is a facinating look at pre Civil War attitudes and social practices. This is not a quick read--it is like reading a masters thesis--but anyone interested in early banjo music and/or the early history of Afro-Americans, will find this book essensial reading.
Blackseeker
I'm a vocalist and vocal music teacher and looked around for a while for an informative, yet not boring book for me to read and use as a reference guide for some of my classes. This book is all that I'd been looking for. In fact, it's the best book that I been able to find about the history of black american folk music. It's also not an easy book to find. I've been so impressed by the books that Amazon carries.
Tiainar
Excellent book for those who want to understand the history of folk music in the US.
Grinin
This is one of the most thoroughly researched books I ever read.
A wonderful classic.

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