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A language of song journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora
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Title
A language of song [electronic resource] : journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora / Samuel Charters.
ISBN
9780822392071
0822392070
9780822343585 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822343584 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822343806 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822343800 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
x, 362 p. : ill.
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Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2009.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references(p. [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.
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