LEADER 04808nam 22006374a 450 001 9910476843503321 005 20090825133252.0 010 $a9786613036391 010 $a1-283-03639-8 010 $a0-8223-9207-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822392071 035 $a(CKB)2440000000014209 035 $a(OCoLC)320539529 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10288103 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000390689 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12119093 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000390689 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10449984 035 $a(PQKB)10129244 035 $a320539529 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007801 035 $a(OCoLC)1142510277 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse79509 035 $a(DE-B1597)552004 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822392071 035 $a(EXLCZ)992440000000014209 100 $a20090508d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA language of song$b[electronic resource] $ejourneys in the musical world of the African diaspora /$fSamuel Charters 210 $aDurham [NC] $cDuke University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (365 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-4380-0 311 $a0-8223-4358-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references(p. [339]-342) and index. 327 $aA 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 Valde?s, the music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista social club -- Bahia nights : Carnival in Brazil's black world. 330 $aIn A Language of Song, Samuel Charters?one of the pioneering collectors of African American music?writes of a trip to West Africa where he found ?a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls of west Louisiana and the great churches of Harlem.? In this book, Charters takes readers along to those and other places, including Jamaica and the Georgia Sea Islands, as he recounts experiences from a half-century spent following, documenting, recording, and writing about the Africa-influenced music of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean.Each of the book?s fourteen chapters is a vivid rendering of a particular location that Charters visited. While music is always his focus, the book is filled with details about individuals, history, landscape, and culture. In first-person narratives, Charters relates voyages including a trip to the St. Louis home of the legendary ragtime composer Scott Joplin and the journey to West Africa, where he met a man who performed an hours-long song about the Europeans? first colonial conquests in Gambia. Throughout the book, Charters traces the persistence of African musical culture despite slavery, as well as the influence of slaves? songs on subsequent musical forms. In evocative prose, he relates a lifetime of travel and research, listening to brass bands in New Orleans; investigating the emergence of reggae, ska, and rock-steady music in Jamaica?s dancehalls; and exploring the history of Afro-Cuban music through the life of the jazz musician Bebo Valdés. A Language of Song is a unique expedition led by one of music?s most observant and well-traveled explorers. 410 0$ae-Duke books scholarly collection. 606 $aMusic$xAfrican influences 606 $aMusic$zUnited States$xAfrican influences 606 $aMusic$zLatin America$xAfrican influences 615 0$aMusic$xAfrican influences. 615 0$aMusic$xAfrican influences. 615 0$aMusic$xAfrican influences. 676 $a780.89/96 700 $aCharters$b Samuel Barclay$0928781 801 0$bNcD 801 1$bNcD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476843503321 996 $aA language of song$92139139 997 $aUNINA