Readings in Black American Music

by Eileen Southern

Book Overview

Second Edition: In this companion volume to The Music of Black America, Eileen Southern draws on letters, journals, memoirs, ledgers, books, articles, and even slave advertisements in newspapers to illuminate the story told in that historical survey, now in it Third Edition. The collection includes documents dating from early America through the twentieth century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393098923
• ISBN13: 9780393098921
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.