Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War

Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War
ISBN-10
0252071506
ISBN-13
9780252071508
Category
Music
Pages
433
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Author
Dena J. Epstein

Description

Awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. This classic work is being reissued with a new author's preface on the silver anniversary of its original publication.

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