Sinful Tunes and Spirituals
Subtitle: Black Folk Music to the Civil War (Music in American Life)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780252005206
Subjects: Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Music; Music/Songbooks; Musical Instruments - General; Music / General; Ethnic; African Americans; History and criticism; Spirituals (Songs)
First sentence: A chronic difficulty in discussing African music in the New World has involved documenting its earliest period.