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African American banjo playing
African American music
African dance in the West Indies
African dances
African drums
African instruments
African music
African music and slavery
African music in the United States
African percussion
African-style drums
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banjo
banjo origins
black folk music
black instruments
black religious music
black slave music in America
black slave music in the Americas
black slave music in the West Indies
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corn songs
Creole music
early African American music
early black music
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James Miller McKim
music and daily life
music and funerals
musical examples
musicology
Negro spiritual
performance styles
pre-Civil War
singing
slave songs
slavery music
songs
spirituals
tunes
Wendell Phillips Garrison
West Indies musical instruments
West Indies slavery
West Indies slavery and music
William Francis Allen
work songs
worksongs
Product details
- ISBN 9780252071508
- Weight: 626g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Aug 2003
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, enslaved people created expansive forms of music from the United States to the West Indies and South America. Dena J. Epstein's classic work traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. Anchored by groundbreaking scholarship, it redefined the study of black music in the slavery era by presenting the little-known development of black folk music in the United States. Her findings include the use of drums, the banjo, and other instruments originating in Africa; a wealth of eyewitness accounts and illustrations; in-depth look at a wide range of topics; and a collection of musical examples. This edition offers an author's preface that looks back on the twenty-five years of changes in scholarship that followed the book's original publication
Dena J. Epstein (1916-2013) was a retired assistant music librarian at the Joseph Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago, and a past president of the Music Library Association.
