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A renowned author and blues historian chronicles his travels as he traces music of the African diaspora to dozens of locations around the world.
This text 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.
The untold story behind the creation of the classic songbook Slave Songs of the United States. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. With Voices to Sing! -- 2. Come Liberty! -- 3. Schooling of a Different Nature -- 4. Scattering the seed -- 5. Beat! beat! drums! -- 6. De N…
In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts to organize humanitarian aid for thousands of newly freed slaves. Hearing their…
