Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War by Dena J. Epstein

Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War

Dena J. Epstein

464 pages first pub 1977 (view editions)

nonfiction history music informative reflective slow-paced
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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, enslaved people cre...

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