In Their Own Words: Slave Life and the Power of Spirituals by Eileen Guenther, Tom Pearce

In Their Own Words: Slave Life and the Power of Spirituals

Eileen Guenther, Tom Pearce

492 pages first pub 2016 (view editions)

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Although slavery and Spirituals have been the subject of many books, this is the first to place the music squarely within the reality of slave life. In addition to surveying the musical styles, performance practices, and melodic and rhythmic chara...

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