The Day Is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island

by Samuel Charters

Book Overview

In the summer of 1958, jazz and blues historian Samuel Charters traveled with Ann Danberg to Andros, a remote island "on the wrong side of the wind" in the Bahamas. Living within a small local community descended from a handful of Bahamian slaves, they discovered how the unique historical fusion of disparate cultures on Andros, from Africa and Europe, had resulted in a wealth of traditional music that had stubbornly resisted the influx of modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071453076X
• ISBN13: 9780714530765
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"