Record #:

16348

Author(s):

Bastin, Bruce

Abstract:

A recurring theme in the study of traditional music has long been the idea that it provides to some degree an index to a culture. Bastin discusses this theme when viewing black music in North Carolina and traces African origins and cultural changes through instruments, songs, melodies, and genres.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 1, May 1979, p3-19, f

Subject(s):

African Americans--Folk music; Folk music--African Americans