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A Language Of Song: Journeys In The Musical World Of The African Diaspora,New
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In A Language of Song, Samuel Chartersone of the pioneering collectors of African American musicwrites of a trip to West Africa where he found a 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. In this book, Charters takes readers along to those and other places, including Jamaica and the Georgia Sea Islands, as he recounts experiences from a halfcentury spent following, documenting, recording, and writing about the Africainfluenced music of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean.Each of the books fourteen chapters is a vivid rendering of a particular location that Charters visited. While music is always his focus, the book is filled with details about individuals, history, landscape, and culture. In firstperson narratives, Charters relates voyages including a trip to the St. Louis home of the legendary ragtime composer Scott Joplin and the journey to West Africa, where he met a man who performed an hourslong song about the Europeans first colonial conquests in Gambia. Throughout the book, Charters traces the persistence of African musical culture despite slavery, as well as the influence of slaves songs on subsequent musical forms. In evocative prose, he relates a lifetime of travel and research, listening to brass bands in New Orleans; investigating the emergence of reggae, ska, and rocksteady music in Jamaicas dancehalls; and exploring the history of AfroCuban music through the life of the jazz musician Bebo Valds. A Language of Song is a unique expedition led by one of musics most observant and welltraveled explorers.
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