A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the
In A Language of Song,Samuel ChartersĀone of the pioneering collectors of African American musicĀwrites of a trip to West Africa where he found Āa 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.Ā In this book,Charters takes readers along to those and other places,including Jamaica a