Masters of the Drum: Black Lit/Oratures Across the Continuum

by Robert E. Fox and Robert Elliot Fox

Masters of the Drum, comprising eight essays and two interviews, examines both celebrated and insufficiently explored Caribbean, African, and African-American lit/orature that asserts the interface between the scribal and the spoken/gestural in Black word art. This triple play--engagement with the three principal regions of the Black world--reflects the author's interest in Black comparative studies, wherein the expressions and emphases of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313292965
• ISBN13: 9780313292965
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"