African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery

Music, that fundamental form of human expression, is one of the most powerful cultural continuities fostered by...
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Author: Mary Caton Lingold
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African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery by Lingold, Mary Caton

African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery

CHF 212.45

African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery

CHF 212.45
Author: Mary Caton Lingold
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Mary Caton Lingold
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 11/28/2023
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780813949772

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