
Re-Searching Black Music by Jon Michael Spencer (The University of Tennessee Press, 1996)
The University of Tennessee Press, 1996
Jon Michael Spencer’s latest book may be taken as an extended introductory essay to his theory of theomusicology. His title invites us to “re-search” the subject and nature of black music; that is, Spencer asks his readers to begin again their consideration of African American musical traditions from a new, and in his opinion, fundamental standpoint- theomusicology.