The Roots Of The Blues: An African Search by Samuel Charters

The Roots Of The Blues: An African Search

Samuel Charters

168 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction music travel challenging reflective medium-paced
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"I went to Africa to find the roots of the blues." So Samuel Charters begins the extraordinary story of his research. But what began as a study of how the blues was handed down from African slaves to musicians of today via the slave ships, became ...

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