Black Music and Writing Black Music History: American Music and Narrative Strategies

Samuel A. Floyd Jr. 


My aim in this paper is to draw attention to ways of writing American music history and to draw from its narrative approaches implications for black music research. In the process, I touch upon three subjects: narrative strategies for writing American music history, an impediment to the writing of a complete history of American music, and an idea for the construction of a model for the latter by combining musical practice with a diasporal approach to black music history.



 
 
 
 
 
 

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