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“A Rough Set of Negroes”: Francis Johnson’s Antebellum New Jack Swing

Black Music Month, Day #6 (excerpt of a speech to inaugurate the Frank Johnson Collection at the University of Pennsylvania) This history of American music is more than an epic story of great composers and their works—a social constructed narrative that characterizes how Western Art Music has been...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 6, 2011
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She Plays Like A Girl: Why We Love Patrice Rushen

Black Music Month Day #5 Dear Patrice Rushen:  We’ve met a couple of times, once at an Indiana University symposium and another at Jazz at Lincoln Center where you were touring with Donald Harrison’s band.  That’s okay. You may not remember me, but we actually go way back. I first learned about...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 5, 2011
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Tryin’ To Git Over: Curtis Mayfield’s Cinematic Muse

Black Music Month Day # 4 When the film Superfly appeared in 1972, cinematic representations of African American men fit into a rather narrow mold.  The image of actor Sidney Poitier had loomed large since the 1950s.  Suave, worldly, clean-cut, and reared in the Bahamas, this charmer had embossed his virtuous...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 4, 2011
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Bebop: Abstracting American Popular Song

Black Music Month Day #3 When bebop appeared seemingly out of nowhere in the mid 1940s, the general public heard it as something strange, something new.  Sounding self-consciously “modern” to many, the creators of bebop crafted, individually and collectively, a musical style that combined...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 3, 2011
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Pure Gold: Though We’re Tried in the Fi-yuh

Black Music Month Day #2: Let’s give the first ladies of gospel genius, The Clark Sisters, some love. From 1997, this is actually a remix of one of Twinkie’s chestnuts from back in the day.  The form is tricky—two long sections that sound like two separate verses (Twinkie was always musically...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 2, 2011
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Wale, Creativity, and the Industry Game

By Genise “As much as I wanted to be minuscule the fact is, they’d only be happy with a minstrel actor, Sorry Mr. Charlie won’t chap dance, and f*ck the radio for tellin’ me to snap jam” -Wale, “Mama Told Me” (Attention: Deficit, 2009) Rap, in my view, no longer incorporates...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 10, 2011
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Discovering Musical Philly: Masala on Campus

More from first year students Jennie and Davis on music in their adopted city, Philadelphia While Davis and I thoroughly enjoy venturing off-campus to various musical venues, we have also begun discovering the wonders of music within the Penn community.  Penn Masala is an all-male a capella group that...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 10, 2011
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Perfect Pitch: Gregory Porter’s Sound Singing Studies

By Guthrie Ramsey Thankfully the smoke has cleared and the tweeting traffic has by now calmed down over jazz artist Esperanza Spaulding’s “controversial” win over teen heartthrob Justin Bieber at this year’s Grammys.  Now I can point out another little noted but pleasant Grammy surprise, one that...

By Dr. Guthrie /  March 25, 2011
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No Turntables Attached: “Keeping the Groove Up” with The Roots

  Guest Writer: R. DiSimone At the 53rd Annual Grammy’s a few weeks ago, John Legend won best R&B album for Wake Up!, a collaboration with Philadelphia hip-hop group the Roots. The Roots themselves also got a Grammy nomination for best rap album (How I Got Over, released this past June). However,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  March 19, 2011
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Discovering Musical Philly: Center City Sounds

Guest Writers: First-year students Jennie Matte and Davis Butner will write a special column this semester documenting their musical exploits in Philadelphia. For the average freshman entering the University of Pennsylvania, transitioning to such an urban college environment may seem rather daunting. ...

By Dr. Guthrie /  February 26, 2011
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