A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora

by Samuel Charters

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822343800
• ISBN13: 9780822343806
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"