Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music

by Christopher Small

Book Overview

"A magnificent book about Afro-American music and its impact on western culture. "--Race and Class

In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819563579
• ISBN13: 9780819563576
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 509 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher