A Language of Song
Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2009
364 pages
978-0-8223-9207-1 (ISBN)
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Samuel Charters 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.
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Samuel Charters is a renowned and influential ethnomusicologist whose many books on music include A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz; The Blues Makers; The Roots of the Blues: An African Search, winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award; Robert Johnson; The Life, the Times, the Songs of Country Joe and the Fish; The Bluesmen; and The Country Blues. In recognition of his writing, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1994. Charters is a Grammy-winning music producer, who has made many recordings as well as a documentary film, The Blues. He is also the author of four novels, numerous books of poetry, and a memoir.
Content
A Note
1. A Griot's Art: The Story of Everything 1
2. Canaries-Canarios: A New Music in an Old World 17
3. Go Down Chariot: The Georgia Sea Islands and Fanny Kemble. The Slavery Spirituals, Lydia Parrish and Zora Neale Hurston 37
4. Skiffles, Tubs and Washboards: Good Time Music before the Blues 62
5. Red Clark's List: New Orleans Street Jazz and the Eureka Brass Band in the 1950s 81
6. A Dance in Ragged Time: "Shake the World's Foundation with the Maple Leaf Rag" 105
7. Gal, You Got to Go Back to Bimini: The Bahamas, Its Rhymers, and Joseph Spence 133
8. Pretenders, Caressers, Lions, and a Mighty Sparrow: Trinidad's Sweet Calypso 152
9. It Be Like Thunder if a Man Live Close: Nights in Trinidad's Pan Yards 178
10. Reggae Is a New Bag: Kingston Streets, Kingston Nights 203
11. To Feel The Spirit: Gospel Song in the Great Churches of Harlem 230
12. A Prince of Zydeco: Louisiana's Zydeco Blues and Good Rockin' Dopsie 254
13. ¿Como se llama este ritmo? Bebo Valdés, the Music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista Social Club 283
14. Bahia Nights: Carnival in Brazil's Black World 308
Notes 335
Bibliography 339
Index 343
1. A Griot's Art: The Story of Everything 1
2. Canaries-Canarios: A New Music in an Old World 17
3. Go Down Chariot: The Georgia Sea Islands and Fanny Kemble. The Slavery Spirituals, Lydia Parrish and Zora Neale Hurston 37
4. Skiffles, Tubs and Washboards: Good Time Music before the Blues 62
5. Red Clark's List: New Orleans Street Jazz and the Eureka Brass Band in the 1950s 81
6. A Dance in Ragged Time: "Shake the World's Foundation with the Maple Leaf Rag" 105
7. Gal, You Got to Go Back to Bimini: The Bahamas, Its Rhymers, and Joseph Spence 133
8. Pretenders, Caressers, Lions, and a Mighty Sparrow: Trinidad's Sweet Calypso 152
9. It Be Like Thunder if a Man Live Close: Nights in Trinidad's Pan Yards 178
10. Reggae Is a New Bag: Kingston Streets, Kingston Nights 203
11. To Feel The Spirit: Gospel Song in the Great Churches of Harlem 230
12. A Prince of Zydeco: Louisiana's Zydeco Blues and Good Rockin' Dopsie 254
13. ¿Como se llama este ritmo? Bebo Valdés, the Music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista Social Club 283
14. Bahia Nights: Carnival in Brazil's Black World 308
Notes 335
Bibliography 339
Index 343
