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A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora Tapa dura - 2009

Name: A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
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Author: Charters, Samuel;
ISBN: 9780822343585

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Información de la editorial

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Descripción de contraportada

"From The Gambia to the Canary Islands, across the Atlantic to the American Deep South, New Orleans, St. Louis, Manhattan, down to the Bahamas, Trinidad, Jamaica, Cuba, and finally to Brazil. These were staging grounds of the horrific African slave trade, which eventually became outposts of freedom and cultural and musical creativity. With beautiful, highly evocative prose, Samuel Charters describes a lifetime of tracing these routes and documenting the music that was created along them--blues, ragtime, jazz, zydeco, calypso, reggae, steel band, rumba, samba, and much more--music that has changed the way the world listens and dances."--David Evans, author of "Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues"

Detalles

Título A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
Autor Samuel Charters
Encuadernación Tapa dura
Páginas 368
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Duke University Press
Fecha de publicación 2009
Ilustrado Sí
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780822343585 / 0822343584
Peso 1.7 libras (0.77 kg)
Dimensiones 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 pulgadas (23.62 x 15.75 x 3.05 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Music - African influences, Charters, Samuel Barclay - Travel
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2008055237
Dewey Decimal Code 780.899

Acerca del autor

Samuel Charters is a renowned and influential ethnomusicologist whose many books on music include A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz; The Blues Makers; The Roots of the Blues: An African Search, winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award; Robert Johnson; The Life, the Times, the Songs of Country Joe and the Fish; The Bluesmen; and The Country Blues. In recognition of his writing, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1994. Charters is a Grammy-winning music producer, who has made many recordings as well as a documentary film, The Blues. He is also the author of four novels, numerous books of poetry, and a memoir.

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