- Taschenbuch: 160 Seiten
- Verlag: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd (17. Juni 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0714530565
- ISBN-13: 978-0714530567
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,2 x 13,6 x 1,8 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.883.349 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In the summer of 1958, Charters and Ann Danberg, his future wife, were out of college and biding time. In 1955 he had heard a 1940 field recording of a singer on the Bahamian island Andros that he considered one of his most thrilling musical experiences. When Ann heard it, she, too, was intrigued. They pooled their resources for a recording trip to Andros. Mud on one side and reef-bound on the other, the scantly populated island proved hard to get to from the nearest tourist destination, expensive Nassau, but get there they did. They rented a tiny house with electricity for the bulky tape recorder, Charters went line-fishing daily for supper, and they searched the music out. They garnered two hours of vocal and instrumental music, including the first recordings of two of the most astonishing traditional musicians ever encountered, dexterous guitarist Joseph Spence and spine-tingling singer Frederick McQueen. The distinctiveness of Andros music, Charters learned later, arose from the quite pure Africanisms of rhythm and harmony that Andros musicians laid over English song structures. Charters wrote notes and Danberg took photographs of their adventure. From them, Charters has made this gentle, wonder-filled memoir--the book folk music devotees have been waiting for him to give them for 40 years and also just about the finest what-I-did-on-my-summer-vacation report ever written. Ray Olson
From Kirkus Reviews
Recollections culled from field notes during a taping expedition to the island of Andros, in the Bahamas, in 1958, by renowned musicologist and novelist Charters (Elvis Presley Calls His Mother After the Ed Sullivan Show, 1992, etc.). Too nostalgic for cultural isolation to be read today as a serious attempt at ethnography (even though hes often self-reflexive about the economic consequences of such isolation), Charterss account nevertheless, captures a moment of great energy and innocence both in his own professional development and in the social sciences. Setting out with a suitcase full of recording equipment, a change of clothing, and a very few dollars in their pockets, Charters and his future wife, Ann Ruth Danberg, gradually find their way to the island that had been visited by Alan Lomax in the late 1930s. Charters had become obsessed with a recording of the song Dig My Grave,'' captured by Lomax on that original expedition, and was determined to do a systematic recording of the traditional music being produced by the small community of fishermen remaining on the island. The results of the expedition are some of the most powerful recordings ever released by Folkways Records. In addition to detailing the conditions under which many of the classic recordings of Bahamian music were produced, the book describes the social and economic inequities which were already being exploited by the tourism industry decades agoparticularly revealing was the practice of stopping the cruise ships near poor villages in the evening so that ``smiling black children'' could dive for tourists' pennies. Ultimately, however, this book is about the romance of a young couple beginning the process of living and working together as a team to document and preserve the music they both love. A fascinating read for those who already admire the music collected by Charters throughout his long career. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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