A language of song [electronic resource] : journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora / Samuel Charters.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collectionPublication details: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.Description: x, 362 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780822392071
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML423.C494 .A3 2009
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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 Valdes, the music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista social club -- Bahia nights : Carnival in Brazil's black world.
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Includes bibliographical references(p. [339]-342) and index.

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 Valdes, the music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista social club -- Bahia nights : Carnival in Brazil's black world.

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