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    1. A language of song: Journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Charters,Samuel Barclay (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Durham, NC: Duke University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    The pioneering collector of African American music writes of a trip to West Africa where he found the cultural and historical roots for musical expression from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls of west Louisiana and the great churches of Harlem. He recounts experiences from a half-century spent following, documenting, recording, and writing about the Africa-influenced music of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean.

    2. Africa in the Americas: Melville J. Herskovits’ folkloristic and anthropological scholarship, 1923-1941

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Baron,Robert (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    1994
    Published:
    Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    827 p, Explores how elements of African culture were retained and transformed by New World Blacks creating emergent cultures from multiple sources.

    4. African Mexicans in Spanish Slave Societies in America: A Critical Location of Sources

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Green,Debra D. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2010-03-01
    Published:
    Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Black Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    40(4) : 683-699
    Notes:
    Journal Article, Taking an Afrocentric approach to the study of Africans who were enslaved by the Spanish in Mexico, the author traveled to Mexico on many occasions to study the retention of African cultural forms, concepts, practices, and values. This article provides the reader with a critical literature brief on the issues surrounding the current discourse.

    7. African creative expressions of the divine

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Davis,Kortright (Editor) and Farajajé-Jones, (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1991
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Howard University School of Divinity
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    257 p., Includes Jean A. Callender's "African survivals in Caribbean religion : a select bibliography," pp. 199-252.