The Day is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island - Samuel Charters - Books - Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd - 9780714530765 - November 1, 2002
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The Day is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island

Samuel Charters

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The Day is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island

In the summer of 1958, jazz and blues historian Samuel Charters traveled with Ann Danberg to Andros, a remote island "on the wrong side of the wind" in the Bahamas. Living within a small local community descended from a handful of Bahamian slaves, they discovered how the unique historical fusion of disparate cultures on Andros, from Africa and Europe, had resulted in a wealth of traditional music that had stubbornly resisted the influx of modern styles. Combining rare travel and musical elements with Danberg?s evocative photographs, Char-ters describes their search for a song so rich and startling in its resonance, they had to follow it to its source. "Just about the best 'what-I-did-on-my-summer-vacation? report ever written." ?Booklist (starred review)

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 1, 2002
ISBN13 9780714530765
Publishers Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Pages 176
Dimensions 134 × 12 × 213 mm   ·   222 g
Language English  

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