A griot's art : the story of everything
Canaries, canarios : a new music in an old world
Go down chariot : The Georgia Sea Islands and Fanny Kemble. The slavery spirituals, Lydia Parrish and Zora Neale Hurston
Skiffles, tubs and washboards : good time music before the Blues
Red Clark's list : New Orleans street jazz and the Eureka brass band in the 1950s
A dance in ragged time : "Shake the world's foundation with the maple leaf rag!"
Gal, you got to go back to Bimini : The Bahamas, its rhymers, and Joseph Spence
Pretenders, caressers, lions, and a mighty sparrow : Trinidad's sweet calypso
It be like thunder if a man live close : nights in Trinidad's pan yards
Reggae is a new bag : Kingston streets, Kingston nights
To feel the spirit : Gospel song in the great churches of Harlem
A prince of zydeco : Louisiana's zydeco blues and good rockin' dopsie
Como se llama este ritmo? : Bebo Valdés, the music of Cuba, and the Buena Vista social club
Bahia nights : Carnival in Brazil's black world.
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A language of song : journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora by Samuel Charters. ISBN 9780822343806. Published by Duke University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
