James A Standifer

Biographic Data

ID104509
NAMEJames A Standifer
GIVEN NAMESJames A
FAMILY NAMEStandifer
SIGNATURESTANDIFER J A
AFFILIATIONSTemple University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
H-INDEX1

  • Jessye, Eva

    James A Standifer, James StandiferCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • The Tuareg

    James A StandiferARTICLEThe Black Perspective in Music1988

    ESEARCHERS seldom find it easy to gain access to a foreign culture when collecting materials, and it was anticipated that getting to know the nomadic Tuareg of Libya would be both difficult and time consuming. So it was, but a rare opportunity made it possible for us to undertake the fieldwork necessary to set up a project. Our aim was twofold: (1) to obtain live knowledge of the music and dances of the Tuareg and (2) to establish the foundation …

  • Reminiscences of Black Musicians

    James A StandiferARTICLEAmerican Music1986

    Oral history, as a means of documenting culture, is a popular and widely accepted form of social research in the United States today. This is especially true of black culture in America and of black musicians, whose music-spirituals, gospels, blues, and jazz-is both uniquely American and a unique synthesis of the Afro-American heritage and experience. The oral history interviews presented below were selected from more than 150 hours of videotaped…

  • Methods and Perspectives in Urban Music Education

    Larry V Shumway, Charles E Hicks et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1986

  • Musical Behaviors of Black People in American Society

    James A Standifer, James StandiferARTICLEBlack Music Research Journal1980

    All sorts of tastes in music exist among black people in America. As is true of other Americans, they too have various kinds of music activity they enjoy, support, become actively involved with, or will tolerate. Further, there is as much difference between tastes of different socioeconomic levels as there is among different age groups within the total black population. While generalizations beyond this point are apt to be dangerously misleading,…

  • Source Book of African and Afro-American Materials for Music Educators

    Adelaida Reyes-Schramm, James A Standifer et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1974

  • Effects on Aesthetic Sensitivity of Developing Perception of Musical Expressiveness

    Open AccessJames A StandiferARTICLEJournal of Research in Music…1970Cited by: 3

    AESTHETIC SENSITIVITY is the ability to have aesthetic experiences. That is, it is the ability (1) to perceive the artistic content of works of art, and (2) to react feelingfully to this content. There are several striking and important facts about this ability. First of all, it is an ability. Because of the subjective and ineffable quality of the aesthetic experience, it has been thought by many people at variou6 times in history that aesthetic …