A language of song: journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora

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.

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1. Verfasser: Charters, Samuel Barclay 1929-2015 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham, NC [u.a.] Duke Univ. Press 2009
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references 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
Beschreibung:X, 352 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780822343585
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