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Subtitle: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s-1920s) (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780815328759
Subjects: Iconography, subjects depicted in art; Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Slavery & emancipation; Pictorial works; History & Criticism - General; Black American Sociology; Black Musicians And Their Music; Music/Songbooks; Music; USA; History and criticism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Ethnomusicology; Music / General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African Americans; Music in art
First sentence: The Africans who, beginning in 1619, were sold into slavery and shipped to the mainland of colonial North America were stripped to the skin and shackled in chains for the long, traumatic voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, the so-called Middle Passage.