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A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
By: Charters, Samuel
Price: $12.98
Publisher: Duke University Press: May 2009
Seller ID: 279995
ISBN: 0822343800
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: New
In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters--one of the pioneering collectors of African American music--writes of a trip to West Africa where he found "a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls of west Louisiana and the great churches of Harlem." In this book, Charters takes readers along to those and other places, including Jamaica and the Georgia Sea Islands, as he recounts experiences from a half-century spent following,...
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A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
By: Charters, Samuel
Price: $12.98
Publisher: Duke University Press: May 2009
Seller ID: 280212
ISBN: 0822343800
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: New
In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters--one of the pioneering collectors of African American music--writes of a trip to West Africa where he found "a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls of west Louisiana and the great churches of Harlem." In this book, Charters takes readers along to those and other places, including Jamaica and the Georgia Sea Islands, as he recounts experiences from a half-century spent following,...
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