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A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
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Hardcover
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from Duke Univ Pr (April 1, 2009)
9780822343585 | details & prices | 352 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.70 lbs | List price $94.95
About: In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters—one of the pioneering collectors of African American music—writes of a trip to West Africa where he found “a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere .
Paperback
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from Duke Univ Pr (April 1, 2009)
9780822343806 | details & prices | 352 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $25.95