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 Cuba, to Tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samuel Charters
Format: Book
Published: Duke University Press Books 2009
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