A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
- Author: Charters, Samuel
What's truly impressive is the scope of the whole work which, while it devotes a little space to blues and jazz, is basically about all of the rest of the African-derived music we hear from around... — More…
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Contents
- A Note
- 1. A Griot's Art: The Story of Everything 1
- 2. Canaries-Canarios: A New Music in an Old World 17
- 3. Go Down Chariot: The Georgia Sea Islands and Fanny Kemble. The Slavery Spirituals, Lydia Parrish and Zora Neale Hurston 37
- 4. Skiffles, Tubs and Washboards: Good Time Music before the Blues 62
- 5. Red Clark's List: New Orleans Street Jazz and the Eureka Brass Band in the 1950s 81
- 6. A Dance in Ragged Time: "Shake the World's Foundation with the Maple Leaf Rag" 105
- 7. Gal, You Got to Go Back to Bimini: The Bahamas, Its Rhymers, and Joseph Spence 133
- 8. Pretenders, Caressers, Lions, and a Mighty Sparrow: Trinidad's Sweet Calypso 152
- 9. It Be Like Thunder if a Man Live Close: Nights in Trinidad's Pan Yards 178
- 10. Reggae Is a New Bag: Kingston Streets, Kingston Nights 203
- 11. To Feel The Spirit: Gospel Song in the Great Churches of Harlem 230
- 12. A Prince of Zydeco: Louisiana's Zydeco Blues and Good Rockin' Dopsie 254
- 13. ?Como se llama este ritmo? Bebo Valdes, the Music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista Social Club 283
- 14. Bahia Nights: Carnival in Brazil's Black World 308
- Notes 335
- Bibliography 339
- Index 343