A Language of Song Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora

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 Cub...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2009
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