Black Instrumental Music Traditions in the Ex-Slave Narratives

Robert B. Winans

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Musicology and Musical Analysis Music History and Culture Colonialism, slavery, and trade

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the Virginia narratives, edited separately by Purdue, Barden, and Phillips (1976). For non-controversial matters of slave life, such as their musical traditions, the narratives are a rich source of quite reliable information. Unfortunately, not all interviewers asked questions that brought out information about instrumental music traditions in the pre-war period. But enough did ask appropriate questions so that there is quite a bit of data on these traditions, which I will summarize. These data refer to the 1840s through the 1860s; the ex-slaves interviewed had been born from 1830 to 1860. I have excluded references

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1977Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves.1978The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography

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