Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas

Long a Taboo Subject Among Critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro traces the central-and contested-role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, he takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the United States of the civil rights era, illuminating along the way such figures as Tous...