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    A Language Of Song Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora

    Duke University Press

    In "A Language of Song", Samuel Charters - one of the pioneering collectors of African American music - writes 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 in west Louisiana and the great churches of Harlem'. In this book, Charters takes readers along to each of those places and others including Jamaica and the Georgia Sea Islands, as he 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. 

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