Black Talk

by Ben Sidran

Book Overview

Black Music--whether it be jazz, blues, r&b, gospel, or soul--has always expressed, consciously or not, its African "oral" heritage, reflecting the conditions of a minority culture in the midst of a white majority. Black Talk is one of those rare books since LeRoi Jones's Blues People to examine the social function of black music in the diaspora; it sounds the depths of experience and maps the history of a culture from the jazz age to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306801841
• ISBN13: 9780306801846
• Release Date: March 1983
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"