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The Day is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island | 
 enlarge | Author: Samuel Charters
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
Buy New: $14.95
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Sales Rank: 1828269
Media: Paperback
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 071453076X
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9780714530765
ASIN: 071453076X
Publication Date: November 1, 2002
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In the summer of 1958, jazz and blues historian Samuel Charters traveled with Ann Danberg to Andros, a remote island "on the wrong side of the wind" in the Bahamas. Living within a small local community descended from a handful of Bahamian slaves, they discovered how the unique historical fusion of disparate cultures on Andros, from Africa and Europe, had resulted in a wealth of traditional music that had stubbornly resisted the influx of modern styles. Combining rare travel and musical elements with Danberg's evocative photographs, Char-ters describes their search for a song so rich and startling in its resonance, they had to follow it to its source. "Just about the best 'what-I-did-on-my-summer-vacation' report ever written." -Booklist (starred review)
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