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024	8		_ahttps://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392071
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035			_a(OCoLC)1253400690
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050		4	_aML423.C494 _bA3 2009
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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aDuCille, Ann, _eauthor. _953422
245	1	2	_aA Language of Song : _bJourneys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora / _cAnn duCille, Samuel Charters.
250			_a[Open access version].
264		1	_a[Place of publication not identified] : _bDuke University Press, _c2009.
300			_a1 online resource (365 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
520			_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 Valďs. A Language of Song is a unique expedition led by one of music's most observant and well-traveled explorers
588	0		_aPrint version record.
590			_aWorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050, 082, 600, 650
600	1	0	_aCharters, Samuel, _d1929-2015 _xTravel. _953423
650		7	_aMusic _xEthnomusicology. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aMusic _xGenres & Styles _xBlues. _2bisacsh _953424
650		7	_aMusic. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01030269
650		0	_aMusic _xAfrican influences. _953425
650		0	_aMusic _zUnited States _xAfrican influences. _953426
650		0	_aMusic _zLatin America _xAfrican influences. _953427
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aCharters, Samuel, _eauthor. _953428
758			_iIs found in: _aDuke University Press _1https://openresearchlibrary.org/module/a5d4c0a0-42eb-4af6-80b4-e5cbdebbaa5e
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