Black Music Research Journal

A scholarly journal publishing original contributions on the philosophy, aesthetics, history, and criticism of black music. Most issues are devoted to a single theme. This is the official publication of the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) at Columbia College in Chicago, a research center devoted to the documentation, collection preservation, and dissemination of information about black music in all parts of the world..

Sound, voice, and spirit: teaching in the black music vernacular.(Repo...
March 22, 2009

Reggae in Cuba and the Hispanic Caribbean: fluctuations and representa...
March 22, 2009

Interpreting the African-American musical past: a dialogue.(college pr...
March 22, 2009

Werner Jaegerhuber's Messe sur les airs vodouesques: the inculturation...
March 22, 2009

Signifyin(g) Salvador: professional musicians and the sound of flexibi...
March 22, 2009

Fela's foundation: examining the revolutionary songs of Funmilayo Rans...
March 22, 2009

Can jazz be rid of the racial imagination? Creolization, racial discou...
September 22, 2008

Dedicated to the struggle: black music, transculturation, and the aura...
September 22, 2008

Shaping uplift through music.(Harriett Gibbs Marshall)(Biography)
September 22, 2008

African diaspora and Colombian popular music in the twentieth century....
September 22, 2008

Iyesa complexes: reexamining perceptions of tradition in Cuban Iyesa M...
September 22, 2008

Editor's note.(Calvert Bean)(In memoriam)(Brief article)
September 22, 2008

Errata.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2008

Books and articles on black music.(Becoming: Blackness and the Musical...
March 22, 2008

Signs, symphonies, signifyin(g): African-American cultural topics as a...
March 22, 2008

Black music and writing black music history: American music and narrat...
March 22, 2008

The "robot voodoo power" thesis: Afrofuturism and anti-anti-essentiali...
March 22, 2008

Appropriating the master's tools: Sun Ra, the Black Panthers, and blac...
March 22, 2008

Unequal temperament: the somatic acoustics of racial difference in the...
March 22, 2008

"Bridging the gap": Creed Taylor, Grover Washington Jr., and the cross...
March 22, 2008

Editor's introduction.(Report)
March 22, 2008

"When we send up the praises": race, identity, and gospel music in Aug...
September 22, 2007

Black pop songwriting 1963-1966: an analysis of U.S. top forty hits by...
September 22, 2007

Black diasporic encounters: a study of the music of Fela Sowande.(Crit...
September 22, 2007

Chappie Willet, Frank Fairfax, and Phil Edwards' Collegians: from West...
March 22, 2007

The politicization of kwaito: from the "party politic" to party politi...
March 22, 2007

Mode, melody, and harmony in traditional Afro-Cuban music: from Africa...
March 22, 2007

Errata.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2006

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2006

The mulatta, the bishop, and dances in the Cathedral: race, music, and...
September 22, 2006

"Joe'i Korsou?" (who is the true Curacaoan?): a musical dialogue on id...
September 22, 2006

The rhythmic component of afrocubanismo in the art music of Cuba.(Repo...
September 22, 2006

Mass culture, commodification, and the consolidation of the Afro-Peruv...
September 22, 2006

Editor's introduction.
March 22, 2006

Western University at Quindaro, Kansas (1865-1943) and its legacy of p...
March 22, 2006

Work the works: the role of African-American women in the development ...
March 22, 2006

"You sell your soul like you sell a piece of ass": rhythms of black fe...
March 22, 2006

Debuting her political voice: the lost opera of Shirley Graham.(The Mu...
March 22, 2006

Bebop: a case in point. (The African Matrix in Jazz Harmonic Practices...
March 22, 2005

Questions of genre in black popular music.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2005

Editor's note.
March 22, 2005

Representing America, instructing Europe: the Hampton choir tours Euro...
March 22, 2005

The disappearing dance: maxixe's imperial erasure.
March 22, 2005

Current research twelve years after the William Grant still centennial...
March 22, 2005

The African matrix in jazz harmonic practices.
March 22, 2005

Reflexive ethnography: an ethnomusicologist's experience as a jazz mus...
March 22, 2005

This house, this music: exploring the interdependent interpretive rela...
March 22, 2005

Editor's introduction.(Harry T. Burleigh )(Editorial)
September 22, 2004

The invisibility and fame of Harry T. Burleigh: retrospect and prospec...
September 22, 2004

Harry T. Burleigh, "one of Erie's most popular church singers".(Biogra...
September 22, 2004

"A certain strangeness": Harry T. Burleigh's art songs and spiritual a...
September 22, 2004

The foundational influence of spirituals in African-American culture: ...
September 22, 2004

The use of dialect in African-American spirituals, popular songs, and ...
September 22, 2004

Harry Burleigh as ethnomusicologist? Transcription, arranging, and the...
September 22, 2004

Directory of African-Appalachian musicians.
March 22, 2004

Predicting black musical innovation and integration: the 1850 Mance In...
March 22, 2004

Preliminary bibliography of best-known black Appalachian musicians.
March 22, 2004

Editor's introduction.
March 22, 2004

The three doc(k)s: white blues in Appalachia.(African-American Music o...
March 22, 2003

Black banjo songsters in Appalachia.(African-American Music of Appalac...
March 22, 2003

Fiddling as an avenue of black-white musical interchange.(African-Amer...
March 22, 2003

Music box meets the Toccoa band: the godfather of soul in Appalachia.(...
March 22, 2003

A candle for queen Ida.(African-American Music of Appalachia)(Ida Prat...
March 22, 2003

Movin' the mountains: an overview of rhythm and blues and its presence...
March 22, 2003

Appalachian jazz: some preliminary notes.(African-American Music of Ap...
March 22, 2003

Appalachian blues.(African-American Music of Appalachia)(Critical Essa...
March 22, 2003

Black musicians in Appalachia: an introduction to Affrilachian music.(...
March 22, 2003

Musicology and linguistics: integrating the phraseology of text and tu...
September 22, 2002

Negotiating freedom: values and practices in contemporary improvised m...
September 22, 2002

Ethnicity, modernity, and retention in the Garifuna punta.
September 22, 2002

A thin blue line down central avenue: the LAPD and the demise of a mus...
September 22, 2002

Black Kings: aesthetic representation in Carnival in Trinidad and Lond...
September 22, 2002

Hip-hop drumming: the rhyme may define, but the groove makes you move.
September 22, 2002

Bridging South America and the United States in black music research.
March 22, 2002

The steelband "own tune": nationalism, festivity, and musical strategi...
March 22, 2002

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