Blackbird
How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being - and Sang Back to Them Ever After
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
Format: Book
Description: xiv, 257 pages ; 24 cm.
"Presents a history of the influence of Black musicians on the Beatles, exploring musical and storytelling legacies full of rich but contested symbolism and the transatlantic circulation of diaspora African arts, tropes, and symbols"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: American music history.
Contents:
Introduction : change the history : the blackbird in song, story, and transatlantic flight -- Free (free) as a bird : the legacy of the ring shout, flying Africans, and gospel in Black music and the Beatles -- Sing a song of blackbird : pre-twentieth-century transatlantic flights in Black music, the Beatles, and Liverpool -- I'm a little blackbird : Florence Mills, blackbirds of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Beatles' jazz age predecessors -- Flying across the ocean : Lead Belly, "Grey goose," and the Beatles' Liverpool skiffle scene -- You can fly away : Lord Woodbine and Lord Kitchener, "Yellow bird," and calypso in the Beatles' Liverpool club scene -- You ain't ever gonna fly : Nina Simone's "Blackbird" and revolutionary responses to the Beatles -- A blackbird on a white album : Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Diana Ross, and other winged inspirations in and around 1968 -- Like a bird up in the sky : Billy Preston flies to the Beatles in London and circles back to LA with "Blackbird" -- Y'all ready girls? : "Blackbird" soars in San Francisco with Sylvester, two tons o' fun, and the band -- I was just seeing myself singing : Bettye LaVette on interpreting the Beatles and singing a bridge of blackbirds -- Conclusion : twenty-first-century "Blackbird" in Paul McCartney's legend, for #BlackLivesMatter, and into transoceanic flightpaths.
Subjects:
Beatles.
Beatles. Blackbird.
Beatles
Popular music -- African American influences.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
Music and race.
Birds -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
Musique populaire -- Histoire et critique.
Musique et race.
Oiseaux -- Chants et musique -- Histoire et critique.
African Americans -- Music
Music and race
Popular music
Popular music -- African American influences
Beatles.
Beatles. Blackbird.
Beatles
Popular music -- African American influences.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
Music and race.
Birds -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
Musique populaire -- Histoire et critique.
Musique et race.
Oiseaux -- Chants et musique -- Histoire et critique.
African Americans -- Music
Music and race
Popular music
Popular music -- African American influences
ISBN:
9780271095615
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
PERFORMING ARTS Music Kap | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Nonfiction | In |
"Foreword by Cyrus Cassells" -- from cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.