A language of song
Subtitle: journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora
By: Samuel Charters.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780822343585; 9780822343806
Subjects: Charters, Samuel Barclay -- Travel; Music -- African influences; Music -- United States -- African influences; Music -- Latin America -- African influences
Description: This text 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A griot's art : the story of everything; title: Canaries, canarios : a new music in an old world; title: Go down chariot : The Georgia Sea Islands and Fanny Kemble. The slavery spirituals, Lydia Parrish and Zora Neale Hurston; title: Skiffles, tubs and washboards : good time music before the Blues; title: Red Clark's list : New Orleans street jazz and the Eureka brass band in the 1950s; title: A dance in ragged time : "Shake the world's foundation with the maple leaf rag!"; title: Gal, you got to go back to Bimini : The Bahamas, its rhymers, and Joseph Spence; title: Pretenders, caressers, lions, and a mighty sparrow : Trinidad's sweet calypso; title: It be like thunder if a man live close : nights in Trinidad's pan yards; title: Reggae is a new bag : Kingston streets, Kingston nights; title: To feel the spirit : Gospel song in the great churches of Harlem; title: A prince of zydeco : Louisiana's zydeco blues and good rockin' dopsie; title: Como se llama este ritmo? : Bebo Valdés, the music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista social club; title: Bahia nights : Carnival in Brazil's black world.