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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	duCille, Ann (auth)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors:	Charters, Samuel (auth)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Duke University Press 2009.
Subjects:	Charters, Samuel, > 1929-2015 > Travel. Music > United States > African influences. Music > Latin America > African influences. Musique > États-Unis > Influence africaine. Musique > Amérique latine > Influence africaine. Light orchestral & big band music. Theory of music & musicology. Blues Ethnomusicology Genres & Styles Music Electronic books.
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A language of song : journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora /

by Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015
Published 2009

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