Name: Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil war (Music in American Life)
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Author: Dena J. Epstein
ISBN: 9780252071508

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Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil war (Music in American Life)

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Physical Book

Publisher

University Of Illinois Press

Author

Dena J. Epstein

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

464

Format

Paperback

Weight

1.40

ISBN

0252071506

ISBN13

9780252071508

Synopsis "Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil war (Music in American Life) "

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.

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