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Author Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015

Title A language of song : journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora / Samuel Charters.

Publication Info. Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  780.89 C38    Check Shelf
Description x, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-342) and index.
Contents A griot's art : the story of everything -- Canaries, canarios : a new music in an old world -- Go down chariot : The Georgia Sea Islands and Fanny Kemble. The slavery spirituals, Lydia Parrish and Zora Neale Hurston -- Skiffles, tubs and washboards : good time music before the Blues -- Red Clark's list : New Orleans street jazz and the Eureka brass band in the 1950s -- A dance in ragged time : "Shake the world's foundation with the maple leaf rag!" -- Gal, you got to go back to Bimini : The Bahamas, its rhymers, and Joseph Spence -- Pretenders, caressers, lions, and a mighty sparrow : Trinidad's sweet calypso -- It be like thunder if a man live close : nights in Trinidad's pan yards -- Reggae is a new bag : Kingston streets, Kingston nights -- To feel the spirit : Gospel song in the great churches of Harlem -- A prince of zydeco : Louisiana's zydeco blues and good rockin' dopsie -- Como se llama este ritmo? : Bebo Valdés, the music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista social club -- Bahia nights : Carnival in Brazil's black world.
Subject Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015 -- Travel.
Music -- African influences.
Music -- United States -- African influences.
Music -- Latin America -- African influences.
ISBN 9780822343585 cloth alkaline paper
0822343584 cloth alkaline paper
9780822343806 paperback alkaline paper
0822343800 paperback alkaline paper
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