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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Caton LingoldPublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780813949789ISBN 10: 0813949785 Pages: 258 Publication Date: 03 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Musical Encounters in Early Modern Atlantic Africa 2. Circulating African Musical Knowledge to the Americas: Macow’s Xylophone 3. Plantation Gatherings and the Foundation of Black American Music 4. Race and Professional Musicianship in the Early Caribbean: In Search of Mr. Baptiste 5. African Traditions and the Evolution of Caribbean Festival Culture in the 18th Century 6. Songs from the 1770s: A Musical Moment Epilogue: Listening for TenaReviewsA rich, well-written and well-researched book on a novel and important topic. African Musicians in the Atlantic World will make a major contribution to multiple fields, including music history, Atlantic studies, colonial Caribbean history and literature, as well as studies of transatlantic slavery, the African diaspora, and Black culture in the Americas. It is full of fascinating archival discoveries and insights. --Lisa Voigt, Yale University, author of Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds Mary Caton Lingold has given us a deeply researched and fascinating narrative about the very beginnings of the musicking of Africans in the Atlantic world. Focusing mainly on the anglophone Caribbean, and the American South, but also West and West Central Africa, the book opens with vivid records of performance in Atlantic Africa before shifting to track the evolution of musical life on US plantations in the 17th and 18th centuries. The greatest strength of this book lies in Lingold's depiction of the sonic experiences of enslaved Africans as they entertained within their own communities. This is real folks' history, richly told from the perspective of what Fred Moten calls the undercommons. With a keen ear toward the hidden transcripts embedded within the strata of history, Lingold draws extensively on European travel accounts, as well as the letters of settlers, traders, colonial officials and missionaries. This is a landmark effort which is sure to spark further interest in a fascinating period in the evolution of the musical culture of the Black Atlantic. Highly recommended. --Corey Harris, Award-winning Musician Author InformationMary Caton Lingold is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |