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Sinful Tunes and Spirituals
Black Folk Music to the Civil War
Dena J. Epstein
Paper978-0-252-07150-8
$30.00
| Pub Date: | 2003 |
| Pages: | 464 pages |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 9 in. |
| Illustrations: | 13 Photographs, 4 Line Drawings |
Classic study of black slave music in America.
Awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. This classic work is being reissued with a new author's preface on the silver anniversary of its original publication.
Awards:
Winner of the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association, 1979. Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize.
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Series:
Music in American Life
Subjects:
Southern History & Culture / Black Studies / Folklore / History, Am.: Colonial / History, Am.: 19th C. / Eighteenth-Century Studies / Music
