Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Note ix
4. 1 A Griot’s Art The Story of Everything 1
5. 2 Canaries—Canarios A New Music in an Old World 17
6. 3 Go Down Chariot The Georgia Sea Islands and Fanny Kemble. The Slavery Spirituals, Lydia Parrish and Zora Neale Hurston 37
7. 4 Skiffles, Tubs, and Washboards Good Time Music before the Blues 62
8. 5 Red Clark’s List New Orleans Street Jazz and the Eureka Brass Band in the 1950s 81
9. 6 A Dance in Ragged Time “Shake the World’s Foundation with the Maple Leaf Rag!” 105
10. 7 Gal, You Got to Go Back to Bimini The Bahamas, Its Rhymers, and Joseph Spence 133
11. 8 Pretenders, Caressers, Lions, and a Mighty Sparrow Trinidad’s Sweet Calypso 152
12. 9 It Be Like Thunder if a Man Live Close Nights in Trinidad’s Pan Yards 178
13. 10 Reggae Is a New Bag Kingston Streets, Kingston Nights 203
14. 11 To Feel the Spirit Gospel Song in the Great Churches of Harlem 230
15. 12 A Prince of Zydeco Louisiana’s Zydeco Blues and Good Rockin’ Dopsie 254
16. 13 ¿Como se llama este ritmo? The Music of Cuba, Bebo Valdés, and the Buena Vista Social Club 283
17. 14 Bahia Nights Carnival in Brazil’s Black World 308
18. Notes 335
19. Bibliography 339
20. Index 343
21. About the Author 353