Mellonee Burnim
Biographic Data
| ID | 157577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mellonee Burnim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mellonee |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnim |
| SIGNATURE | BURNIM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Seeger Lecture, Society for Ethnomusicology Virtual Meeting 2021
Throughout my career, scholarship on African American religious music has described and critiqued both the tradition of spirituals as well as gospel music, the two indigenous forms that have served as the public face of African American religious identity throughout history. These two expansive genres, which over time produced multiple subgenres, have historically generated oppositional responses from both within and outside its cultural milieu. …
African American music
1. Intellectual History Portia K. Maultsby and Mellonee V. Burnim with contributions from Susan Oehler Part I Genres 2. Secular Folk Music Dena J. Epstein with contributions from Rosita M. Sands 3. Religious Music Mellonee V. Burnim 4. Blues Chronological Overview David Evans The Blues in Transcultural Contexts Susan Oehler 5. Ragtime Ingeborg Harer 6. Jazz Chronological Overview Ingrid Monson Interpreting Jazz Travis A. Jackson 7. Musical Theate…
Happy in the Service of the Lord
Birmingham Boys
Jubilee to Gospel
Birmingham Quartet Anthology
Culture Bearer and Tradition Bearer
n 1964, Bruno Nettl articulated a widespread assumption regarding objectivity in ethnomusicological field research. He indicated that most ethnomusicologists were engaged in research among people whose cultural background differed from their own. It was assumed that this outsider status provided the personal detachment necessary to produce an objective study. Summarizing this position, Nettl states
The Land Where the Blues Began
Gospel Music Research
Students of gospel music are in agreement that it was during the decade of the 1920's that the tradition of gospel music started its steady climb to respectability and widespread popularity among black people in the United States. In the year 1921, Thomas Dorsey wrote his first gospel song; hardly ten years later, in 1930, Dorsey had completely renounced his career as an accomplished blues and jazz pianist-composer and devoted himself entirely to…
Culture Bearer and Tradition Bearer
n 1964, Bruno Nettl articulated a widespread assumption regarding objectivity in ethnomusicological field research. He indicated that most ethnomusicologists were engaged in research among people whose cultural background differed from their own. It was assumed that this outsider status provided the personal detachment necessary to produce an objective study. Summarizing this position, Nettl states
Gospel Music Research
Students of gospel music are in agreement that it was during the decade of the 1920's that the tradition of gospel music started its steady climb to respectability and widespread popularity among black people in the United States. In the year 1921, Thomas Dorsey wrote his first gospel song; hardly ten years later, in 1930, Dorsey had completely renounced his career as an accomplished blues and jazz pianist-composer and devoted himself entirely to…
Gospel Music Research
Students of gospel music are in agreement that it was during the decade of the 1920's that the tradition of gospel music started its steady climb to respectability and widespread popularity among black people in the United States. In the year 1921, Thomas Dorsey wrote his first gospel song; hardly ten years later, in 1930, Dorsey had completely renounced his career as an accomplished blues and jazz pianist-composer and devoted himself entirely to…
The Land Where the Blues Began
Jubilee to Gospel
Birmingham Quartet Anthology
Culture Bearer and Tradition Bearer
n 1964, Bruno Nettl articulated a widespread assumption regarding objectivity in ethnomusicological field research. He indicated that most ethnomusicologists were engaged in research among people whose cultural background differed from their own. It was assumed that this outsider status provided the personal detachment necessary to produce an objective study. Summarizing this position, Nettl states
Birmingham Boys
Happy in the Service of the Lord
African American music
1. Intellectual History Portia K. Maultsby and Mellonee V. Burnim with contributions from Susan Oehler Part I Genres 2. Secular Folk Music Dena J. Epstein with contributions from Rosita M. Sands 3. Religious Music Mellonee V. Burnim 4. Blues Chronological Overview David Evans The Blues in Transcultural Contexts Susan Oehler 5. Ragtime Ingeborg Harer 6. Jazz Chronological Overview Ingrid Monson Interpreting Jazz Travis A. Jackson 7. Musical Theate…
Seeger Lecture, Society for Ethnomusicology Virtual Meeting 2021
Throughout my career, scholarship on African American religious music has described and critiqued both the tradition of spirituals as well as gospel music, the two indigenous forms that have served as the public face of African American religious identity throughout history. These two expansive genres, which over time produced multiple subgenres, have historically generated oppositional responses from both within and outside its cultural milieu. …
Music History and Culture (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Gospel (5 works) · History (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Musical (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)