University of the West Indies Press 6/16/2009 Paperback or Softback New in New jacket Rock It Come Over: The Folk Music of Jamaica (Paperback or Softback)

ISBN10: 9766400288, ISBN13: 9789766400286, [publisher: University Of The West Indies Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Rock it Come Over describes the music and lore of slavery from the early sixteenth century through emancipation in 1838 to the mid twentieth century. Lewin explores the role of music in the lives of the slaves as a method of communication, as a form of resistance and subversion, as a repository of oral history and beliefs, and, ultimately, as a means of survival.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2000]
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