A language of song : journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora /
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- A griot's art : the story of everything
- Canaries, canarios : a new music in an old world
- Go down chariot : The Georgia Sea Islands and Fanny Kemble. The slavery spirituals, Lydia Parrish and Zora Neale Hurston
- Skiffles, tubs and washboards : good time music before the Blues
- Red Clark's list : New Orleans street jazz and the Eureka brass band in the 1950s
- A dance in ragged time : "Shake the world's foundation with the maple leaf rag!"
- Gal, you got to go back to Bimini : The Bahamas, its rhymers, and Joseph Spence
- Pretenders, caressers, lions, and a mighty sparrow : Trinidad's sweet calypso
- It be like thunder if a man live close : nights in Trinidad's pan yards
- Reggae is a new bag : Kingston streets, Kingston nights
- To feel the spirit : gospel song in the great churches of Harlem
- A prince of zydeco : Louisiana's zydeco blues and good rockin' dopsie
- ¿Como se llama este ritmo? : the music of Cuba, Bebo Valdés, and the Buena Vista social club
- Bahia nights : carnival in Brazil's black world.