Cheryl Keyes launched her musical journey in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Growing up in Louisiana’s rich musical culture from blues, gospel, zydeco, soul, jazz, rhythm ‘n’ blues, and funk, Cheryl Keyes began studying piano at age 7 and flute at age 11. Influenced by her older brother, Cheryl took an interest in jazz arranging, orchestration, and composing. She wrote her first band arrangement at the age of 13.
Keyes attended Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans on a music scholarship. Her musical interests shifted gears while taking a music history class in her senior year at Xavier. She remembered how her final class project on French Impressionist music piqued her research interest in African-derived music. Only then Keyes realized that few books then were written on this music by its originators that she pursued the study of African American music by the field of Ethnomusicology.
Cheryl Keyes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, with a specialty in African American music. Among her noted courses include Women in Jazz, Cultural History of Rap as well as a course on the blues. She is also the author of the book Rap Music and Street Consciousness, which received a CHOICE award for outstanding academic books in 2004.
Cheryl wrote a journal called Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance. Critics and scholars have often associated rap music with urban male culture. However, females have been involved in the history of this music since its early years. This article talks about Black women's contribution in shaping rap music. This book was interesting to me because usually you only here about black women in the videos shaking their body but in this journal Cheryl explains the women that is apart of the music making business and their positive role in hip hop.
Cheryl Keyes was a good candidate for writing this book because she knows about the music. This is what she has studied and observed for years. She knows what she is talking about and that’s what makes a big difference between her and others that are looking from the outside in.
Keyes attended Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans on a music scholarship. Her musical interests shifted gears while taking a music history class in her senior year at Xavier. She remembered how her final class project on French Impressionist music piqued her research interest in African-derived music. Only then Keyes realized that few books then were written on this music by its originators that she pursued the study of African American music by the field of Ethnomusicology.
Cheryl Keyes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, with a specialty in African American music. Among her noted courses include Women in Jazz, Cultural History of Rap as well as a course on the blues. She is also the author of the book Rap Music and Street Consciousness, which received a CHOICE award for outstanding academic books in 2004.
Cheryl wrote a journal called Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance. Critics and scholars have often associated rap music with urban male culture. However, females have been involved in the history of this music since its early years. This article talks about Black women's contribution in shaping rap music. This book was interesting to me because usually you only here about black women in the videos shaking their body but in this journal Cheryl explains the women that is apart of the music making business and their positive role in hip hop.
Cheryl Keyes was a good candidate for writing this book because she knows about the music. This is what she has studied and observed for years. She knows what she is talking about and that’s what makes a big difference between her and others that are looking from the outside in.
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