| 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? : Bebo Valdés, the music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista social club -- Bahia nights : Carnival in Brazil's black world. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-342) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008055237 |
| ISBN | 9780822343585 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822343584 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822343806 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822343800 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
