Samuel Charters is a renowned and influential ethnomusicologist whose many books on music include A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz; The Blues Makers; The Roots of the Blues: An African Search, winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award; Robert Johnson; The Life, the Times, the Songs of Country Joe and the Fish; The Bluesmen; and The Country Blues . In recognition of his writing, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1994. Charters is a Grammy-winning music producer, who has made many recordings as well as a documentary film, The Blues. He is also the author of four novels, numerous books of poetry, and a memoir.
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A Note 1. A Griot's Art: The Story of Everything 1 2. Canaries—Canarios: A New Music in an Old World 17 3. Go Down Chariot: The Georgia Sea Islands and Fanny Kemble. The Slavery Spirituals, Lydia Parrish and Zora Neale Hurston 37 4. Skiffles, Tubs and Washboards: Good Time Music before the Blues 62 5. Red Clark's List: New Orleans Street Jazz and the Eureka Brass Band in the 1950s 81 6. A Dance in Ragged Time: "Shake the World's Foundation with the Maple Leaf Rag" 105 7. Gal, You Got to Go Back to Bimini: The Bahamas, Its Rhymers, and Joseph Spence 133 8. Pretenders, Caressers, Lions, and a Mighty Sparrow: Trinidad's Sweet Calypso 152 9. It Be Like Thunder if a Man Live Close: Nights in Trinidad's Pan Yards 178 10. Reggae Is a New Bag: Kingston Streets, Kingston Nights 203 11. To Feel The Spirit: Gospel Song in the Great Churches of Harlem 230 12. A Prince of Zydeco: Louisiana's Zydeco Blues and Good Rockin' Dopsie 254 13. ¿Como se llama este ritmo? Bebo Valdés, the Music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista Social Club 283 14. Bahia Nights: Carnival in Brazil's Black World 308 Notes 335 Bibliography 339 Index 343
A Note 1. A Griot's Art: The Story of Everything 1 2. Canaries—Canarios: A New Music in an Old World 17 3. Go Down Chariot: The Georgia Sea Islands and Fanny Kemble. The Slavery Spirituals, Lydia Parrish and Zora Neale Hurston 37 4. Skiffles, Tubs and Washboards: Good Time Music before the Blues 62 5. Red Clark's List: New Orleans Street Jazz and the Eureka Brass Band in the 1950s 81 6. A Dance in Ragged Time: "Shake the World's Foundation with the Maple Leaf Rag" 105 7. Gal, You Got to Go Back to Bimini: The Bahamas, Its Rhymers, and Joseph Spence 133 8. Pretenders, Caressers, Lions, and a Mighty Sparrow: Trinidad's Sweet Calypso 152 9. It Be Like Thunder if a Man Live Close: Nights in Trinidad's Pan Yards 178 10. Reggae Is a New Bag: Kingston Streets, Kingston Nights 203 11. To Feel The Spirit: Gospel Song in the Great Churches of Harlem 230 12. A Prince of Zydeco: Louisiana's Zydeco Blues and Good Rockin' Dopsie 254 13. ¿Como se llama este ritmo? Bebo Valdés, the Music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista Social Club 283 14. Bahia Nights: Carnival in Brazil's Black World 308 Notes 335 Bibliography 339 Index 343
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