African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery by Mary C

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The roots of so much of today's music are drawn directly from the men and women carried across the Atlantic in chains. This important book bridges African diaspora studies, music studies, and transatlantic and colonial American literature to trace the lineage of African and African diasporic musical life in the early modern period.

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Music, that fundamental form of human expression, is one of the most powerful cultural continuities fostered by enslaved Africans and their descendants throughout the Americas. The roots of so much of the music beloved around the world today are drawn directly from the men and women carried across the Atlantic in chains, from the west coast of Africa to the shores of the so-called New World. This important new book bridges African diaspora studies, music studies, and transatlantic and colonial American literature to trace the lineage of African and African diasporic musical life in the early modern period.Mary Caton Lingold meticulously analyses surviving sources, especially European travelogues, to recover the lives of African performers, the sounds they created, and the meaning their musical creations held in Africa and later for enslaved communities in the Caribbean and throughout the plantation Americas. The book provides a rich history of early African sound and a revelatory analysis of the many ways that music shaped enslavement and colonisation in the Americas.

Author Biography

Mary Caton Lingold is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Musical Encounters in Early Modern Atlantic Africa2. Circulating African Musical Knowledge to the Americas: Macow's Xylophone3. Plantation Gatherings and the Foundation of Black American Music4. Race and Professional Musicianship in the Early Caribbean: In Search of Mr. Baptiste5. African Traditions and the Evolution of Caribbean Festival Culture in the 18th Century6. Songs from the 1770s: A Musical MomentEpilogue: Listening for Tena

Review

Mary Caton Lingold has given us a deeply researched and fascinating narrative about the very beginnings of the musicking of Africans in the Atlantic world. Focusing mainly on the anglophone Caribbean, and the American South, but also West and West Central Africa, the book opens with vivid records of performance in Atlantic Africa before shifting to track the evolution of musical life on US plantations in the 17th and 18th centuries. The greatest strength of this book lies in Lingold's depiction of the sonic experiences of enslaved Africans as they entertained within their own communities. This is real folks' history, richly told from the perspective of what Fred Moten calls the undercommons. With a keen ear toward the hidden transcripts embedded within the strata of history, Lingold draws extensively on European travel accounts, as well as the letters of settlers, traders, colonial officials and missionaries. This is a landmark effort which is sure to spark further interest in a fascinating period in the evolution of the musical culture of the Black Atlantic. Highly recommended.--Corey Harris, award-winning musicianA rich, well-written and well-researched book on a novel and important topic. African Musicians in the Atlantic World will make a major contribution to multiple fields, including music history, Atlantic studies, colonial Caribbean history and literature, as well as studies of transatlantic slavery, the African diaspora, and Black culture in the Americas. It is full of fascinating archival discoveries and insights.--Lisa Voigt, Yale University, author of Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds

Details ISBN0813949785 Author Mary Caton Lingold Publisher University of Virginia Press Series New World Studies Year 2023 ISBN-13 9780813949789 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-11-03 Imprint University of Virginia Press Subtitle Legacies of Sound and Slavery Place of Publication Charlottesville Country of Publication United States Illustrations 17 b&w illustrations AU Release Date 2023-11-03 NZ Release Date 2023-11-03 US Release Date 2023-11-03 UK Release Date 2023-11-03 ISBN-10 0813949785 Audience Professional & Vocational DEWEY 780.89960729 Pages 258 We've got this

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