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 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 analyses 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 colonisation in the Americas.

General

Imprint:	University of Virginia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New World Studies
Release date:	November 2023
Authors:	Mary Caton Lingold
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8139-4977-2
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-8139-4977-7
Barcode:	9780813949772

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