Black Music Research Journal | Vol. 28 No. 1

Volume 28 • Number 1

Spring 2008


Editor's Introduction	v
GUTHRIE P. RAMSEY JR.

Becoming: Blackness and the Musical Imagination

"Bridging the Gap": Creed Taylor, Grover Washington Jr., and the Crossover Roots of Smooth Jazz	1
CHARLES D. CARSON

Unequal Temperament: The Somatic Acoustics of Racial Difference in the Symphonic Music of John Powell	17
J. LESTER FEDER

Appropriating the Master's Tools: Sun Ra, the Black Panthers, and Black Consciousness, 1952–1973	57
DANIEL KREISS

The "Robot Voodoo Power" Thesis: Afrofuturism and Anti-anti-essentialism from Sun Ra to Kool Keith	83
J. GRIFFITH ROLLEFSON

Black Music and Writing Black Music History: American Music and Narrative Strategies	111
SAMUEL A. FLOYD JR.

Signs, Symphonies, Signifyin(g): African-American Cultural Topics as Analytical Approach to the Music of Black Composers	123
HORACE J. MAXILE JR.

Books and Articles on Black Music	139
JENNIFER RYAN

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Volume 28 • Number 1

Spring 2008