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The Roots Of The Blues
An African Search
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“I went to Africa to find the roots of the blues.” So Samuel Charters begins the extraordinary story of his research. But what began as a study of how the blues was handed down from African slaves to musicians of today via the slave ships, became something much more complex. For in Africa Samuel Charters discovered a music which was not just a part of the past but a very vital living part of African culture. The Roots of the Blues not only reveals Charters’s remarkable talent in discussing African folk music and its relationship with American blues; it demonstrates his power as a descriptive and narrative writer. Using extensive quotations of song lyrics and some remarkable photographs of the musicians, Charters has created a unique contribution to our understanding of both African and American cultures and their music.
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- Aug 22, 1991
- Page Count
- 168 pages
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780306804458
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