Guthrie P Ramsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 219648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guthrie P Ramsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guthrie P |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramsey |
| SIGNATURE | RAMSEY G P |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Amiri’s Dream, or The Blue Futures of (Negro) Music
Guthrie Ramsey in Conversation with Stefon Harris
On December 14, 2023, Guthrie Ramsey conducted a master class and spoke with Rutgers-Newark faculty member Stefon Harris as part of Express Newark's "Blues People" exhibition. Dr. Ramsey opened the afternoon with an excerpt of a film he produced "to tell part of the history of African American music." For the balance of the lecture, Ramsey explored examples of and pedagogical processes related to a type of "vocalization and musicianship" central …
Bars
In hip-hop jargon, the term “bars” refers to the sum of a rap performer's artistic endowments. If their rhymes hit hard and remix your thoughts, if the stress and release of their rhythms organize something inside your body, and if the timbral quality of their voice makes you hear metaphors, then that rapper's “got bars.” What rap artists do over beats, the best scholars try to accomplish in essay form.In her recent publication In Search of a Bea…
Powell, Bud
Early American Music and the Construction of Race
An ideology of racial difference is baked into American music history. The staggering diversity of music heard in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, as waves of colonization, forced migration, enslavement, expulsion, and immigration brought different peoples into prolonged and often violent contact with each other, created lasting ideas and praxes of musical alterity. This holds true across genres and contexts. Native peoples and Europea…
The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price
The transformation of black music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African diaspora
The Transformation of Black Music includes a full spectrum of black musics from four continents as it argues for a re-codification of black musics and performers. Framed by a call and response argument, the authors present not only a more holistic and historically accurate understanding of musics in the African Diaspora, but also an intellectually robust future for the field of black music research.
A New Kind of Blue: The Power of Suggestion & the Pleasure of Groove in Robert Glasper's Black Radio
This essay places the important Robert Glasper Experiment recording “Black Radio” (2012) within its artistic, commercial, and critical contexts. As a project that combines genres, “Black Radio” did more than challenge different communities of listeners; it invited them to see how Glasper's sonic juxtapositions could be logically aligned. Jazz, hip-hop, R&B, and gospel merge in “Black Radio” to form a stylish, forward-looking contribution that won…
African American music
The Pot Liquor Principle: Developing a Black Music Criticism in American Music Studies
This essay reflects on Black musical culture in the United States and its criticism with an eye toward how these ideas implicate new directions and areas of potential growth in the burgeoning field of American music studies writ large. We cannot fully understand American music and its study without intensely engaging the parts that comprise its sum. The relationship of African American musical studies to American musical studies remains a symbiot…
The Pot Liquor Principle: Developing a Black Music Criticism in American Music Studies
Muzing New Hoods, Making New Identities: Film, Hip-Hop Culture, and Jazz Music
The medium of film has communicated, shaped, reproduced and challenged various notions of black subjectivity in 20th century America since D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation appeared in 1915. Writing in 1949, Ralph Ellison argued that Birth of a Nation "forged the twin screen image of the Negro as bestial rapist and grinning, eye-rolling clown--stereotypes that are still with us today" (Ellison 275). Such depictions in cinema had already existed i…
Walker, George
Blues and the Ethnographic Truth
Blues and the Ethnographic Truth
Because art is invention, “truth” is generally held to be a false standard by which to evaluate a writer's work. This should be the case whether the issue is Alice Walker's representation of black men or Spike Lee's treatment of black women. Yet... this is precisely the leap of faith that critics of African American literature continue to make. Texts are transparent documents that must tell the truth as I know it. Failure to tell my truth not onl…
Mo' Better Bebop
The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History. By Scott DeVeaux. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1997. 572 pages. $45.00 (cloth). $18.95 (paper). Spike Lee's 1991 film, Mo' Better Blues, tells the story of trumpeter Bleek Gilliam, a young musician whose star is rising on the New York jazz circuit. During a party, Bleek engages in a heated debate with fellow band member and rival, Shadow Henderson. The scene sizzles. As the tw…
African Discourse in Black Music Pedagogy and Analysis
Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States. By Samuel Floyd, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. [316 p. ISBN 0-19-508235-4. $30.00.] The argument that Samuel Floyd makes in The Power of Black Music demands serious consideration, especially by specialists. For those of us who have taught African-American music surveys or specialized seminars in the area, the book offers and affirms many ideas, cha…
Representing Jazz
Cosmopolitan or Provincial: Ideology in Early Black Music Historiography, 1867-1940
Southern, recently called quiet revolutionary,' published The Music of Black Americans: A History in 1971. The appearance of her book in the wake of the Black Power Movement, the turbulent social upheaval of the late 1960s, links it to an auspicious historical moment. Among other dramatic social changes, the period saw the radicalization of the word black, a designation standing provocatively, even proudly, in Southern's main title. Furthermore, …
Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians: "Performing "Out There
Focuses on performers whose own styles, by definition, transcend traditional boundaries of jazz and most Western forms of music. The performers discussed include John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Daniel Carter, Billy Bang, and Jemeel Moondoc
Afro-American Symphony
Cosmopolitan or Provincial: Ideology in Early Black Music Historiography, 1867-1940
Southern, recently called quiet revolutionary,' published The Music of Black Americans: A History in 1971. The appearance of her book in the wake of the Black Power Movement, the turbulent social upheaval of the late 1960s, links it to an auspicious historical moment. Among other dramatic social changes, the period saw the radicalization of the word black, a designation standing provocatively, even proudly, in Southern's main title. Furthermore, …
Afro-American Symphony
Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians: "Performing "Out There
Focuses on performers whose own styles, by definition, transcend traditional boundaries of jazz and most Western forms of music. The performers discussed include John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Daniel Carter, Billy Bang, and Jemeel Moondoc
Cosmopolitan or Provincial: Ideology in Early Black Music Historiography, 1867-1940
Southern, recently called quiet revolutionary,' published The Music of Black Americans: A History in 1971. The appearance of her book in the wake of the Black Power Movement, the turbulent social upheaval of the late 1960s, links it to an auspicious historical moment. Among other dramatic social changes, the period saw the radicalization of the word black, a designation standing provocatively, even proudly, in Southern's main title. Furthermore, …
Representing Jazz
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States. By Samuel Floyd, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. [316 p. ISBN 0-19-508235-4. $30.00.] The argument that Samuel Floyd makes in The Power of Black Music demands serious consideration, especially by specialists. For those of us who have taught African-American music surveys or specialized seminars in the area, the book offers and affirms many ideas, cha…
Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction
Mo' Better Bebop
The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History. By Scott DeVeaux. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1997. 572 pages. $45.00 (cloth). $18.95 (paper). Spike Lee's 1991 film, Mo' Better Blues, tells the story of trumpeter Bleek Gilliam, a young musician whose star is rising on the New York jazz circuit. During a party, Bleek engages in a heated debate with fellow band member and rival, Shadow Henderson. The scene sizzles. As the tw…
African Discourse in Black Music Pedagogy and Analysis
Walker, George
Blues and the Ethnographic Truth
Blues and the Ethnographic Truth
Because art is invention, “truth” is generally held to be a false standard by which to evaluate a writer's work. This should be the case whether the issue is Alice Walker's representation of black men or Spike Lee's treatment of black women. Yet... this is precisely the leap of faith that critics of African American literature continue to make. Texts are transparent documents that must tell the truth as I know it. Failure to tell my truth not onl…
Muzing New Hoods, Making New Identities: Film, Hip-Hop Culture, and Jazz Music
The medium of film has communicated, shaped, reproduced and challenged various notions of black subjectivity in 20th century America since D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation appeared in 1915. Writing in 1949, Ralph Ellison argued that Birth of a Nation "forged the twin screen image of the Negro as bestial rapist and grinning, eye-rolling clown--stereotypes that are still with us today" (Ellison 275). Such depictions in cinema had already existed i…
The Pot Liquor Principle: Developing a Black Music Criticism in American Music Studies
This essay reflects on Black musical culture in the United States and its criticism with an eye toward how these ideas implicate new directions and areas of potential growth in the burgeoning field of American music studies writ large. We cannot fully understand American music and its study without intensely engaging the parts that comprise its sum. The relationship of African American musical studies to American musical studies remains a symbiot…
The Pot Liquor Principle: Developing a Black Music Criticism in American Music Studies
African American music
A New Kind of Blue: The Power of Suggestion & the Pleasure of Groove in Robert Glasper's Black Radio
This essay places the important Robert Glasper Experiment recording “Black Radio” (2012) within its artistic, commercial, and critical contexts. As a project that combines genres, “Black Radio” did more than challenge different communities of listeners; it invited them to see how Glasper's sonic juxtapositions could be logically aligned. Jazz, hip-hop, R&B, and gospel merge in “Black Radio” to form a stylish, forward-looking contribution that won…
The transformation of black music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African diaspora
The Transformation of Black Music includes a full spectrum of black musics from four continents as it argues for a re-codification of black musics and performers. Framed by a call and response argument, the authors present not only a more holistic and historically accurate understanding of musics in the African Diaspora, but also an intellectually robust future for the field of black music research.
The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price
Early American Music and the Construction of Race
An ideology of racial difference is baked into American music history. The staggering diversity of music heard in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, as waves of colonization, forced migration, enslavement, expulsion, and immigration brought different peoples into prolonged and often violent contact with each other, created lasting ideas and praxes of musical alterity. This holds true across genres and contexts. Native peoples and Europea…
Powell, Bud
Bars
In hip-hop jargon, the term “bars” refers to the sum of a rap performer's artistic endowments. If their rhymes hit hard and remix your thoughts, if the stress and release of their rhythms organize something inside your body, and if the timbral quality of their voice makes you hear metaphors, then that rapper's “got bars.” What rap artists do over beats, the best scholars try to accomplish in essay form.In her recent publication In Search of a Bea…
Amiri’s Dream, or The Blue Futures of (Negro) Music
Guthrie Ramsey in Conversation with Stefon Harris
On December 14, 2023, Guthrie Ramsey conducted a master class and spoke with Rutgers-Newark faculty member Stefon Harris as part of Express Newark's "Blues People" exhibition. Dr. Ramsey opened the afternoon with an excerpt of a film he produced "to tell part of the history of African American music." For the balance of the lecture, Ramsey explored examples of and pedagogical processes related to a type of "vocalization and musicianship" central …
Art (18 works) · Music History and Culture (17 works) · Art history (11 works) · History (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (9 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (8 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Jazz (6 works)