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A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora

A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora

Charters, Samuel

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 0822343584
ISBN13: 9780822343585
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 6 2009
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters--one of the pioneering collectors of African American music--writes of a trip to West Africa where he found a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls of west Louisiana and the great churches of Harlem. In this book, Charters takes readers along to those and other places, including Jamaica and the Georgia Sea Islands, as he recounts experiences from a half-century spent following, documenting, recording, and writing about the Africa-influenced music of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean.

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