Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War (Music in American Life) - Softcover

Epstein, Dena J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252071506 ISBN 13: 9780252071508

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2003

Synopsis

Awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association
 
From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises.
 
This classic work is being reissued with a new author's preface on the silver anniversary of its original publication.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Dena J. Epstein is a retired assistant music librarian at the Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, and past president of the Music Library Association.
 

Review:

"Epstein has uncovered far more about early black music than anyone thought possible. Her luxuriant quotations and definitive treatments of a wide variety of musical subtopics make the book an essential reference volume and a marvelous storehouse of information."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0252071506
• ISBN 13: 9780252071508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464