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...
Main Author: | duCille, Ann (auth) |
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Other Authors: | Charters, Samuel (auth) |
Format: | eBook |
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Duke University Press
2009
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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