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African musicians in the Atlantic world : legacies of sound and slavery / Mary Caton Lingold.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New World studiesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813949772
  • 0813949777
  • 9780813949789
  • 0813949785
Subject(s):
Contents:
Musical Encounters in Early Modern Atlantic Africa -- Circulating African Musical Knowledge to the Americas : Macow's Xylophone -- Plantation Gatherings and the Foundation of Black American Music -- Race and Professional Musicianship in the Early Caribbean : In Search of Mr. Baptiste -- African Traditions and the Evolution of Caribbean Festival Culture in the Eighteenth Century -- Songs from the 1770s : A Musical Moment -- Epilogue. Listening for Tena.
Summary: "This book connects the history of music to the history of slavery in the Americas"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction Adult Display - Second Floor 780.8996 L755 Black Music Month - NEW Available 33111011226822
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Music, that fundamental form of human expression, is one of the most powerful cultural continuities fostered by enslaved Africans and their descendants throughout the Americas. The roots of so much of the music beloved around the world today are drawn directly from the men and women carried across the Atlantic in chains, from the west coast of Africa to the shores of the so-called New World. This important new book bridges African diaspora studies, music studies, and transatlantic and colonial American literature to trace the lineage of African and African diasporic musical life in the early modern period.

Mary Caton Lingold meticulously analyzes surviving sources, especially European travelogues, to recover the lives of African performers, the sounds they created, and the meaning their musical creations held in Africa and later for enslaved communities in the Caribbean and throughout the plantation Americas. The book provides a rich history of early African sound and a revelatory analysis of the many ways that music shaped enslavement and colonization in the Americas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Musical Encounters in Early Modern Atlantic Africa -- Circulating African Musical Knowledge to the Americas : Macow's Xylophone -- Plantation Gatherings and the Foundation of Black American Music -- Race and Professional Musicianship in the Early Caribbean : In Search of Mr. Baptiste -- African Traditions and the Evolution of Caribbean Festival Culture in the Eighteenth Century -- Songs from the 1770s : A Musical Moment -- Epilogue. Listening for Tena.

"This book connects the history of music to the history of slavery in the Americas"-- Provided by publisher.

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