Publisher's stiff card stock wrappers, octavo, pp. xx, 269. Illustrated. Just light shelf and handling wear. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, [1991]. ISBN 0812213319 9780812213317 [US]

University of Pennsylvania Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 0812213319 9780812213317 [US]

Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press,, (Date: 1991). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new).. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. An ethnomusicological study of the black 'spiritual entertainment' tradition in music, this is based on field recordings and interviews with dozens of local New York singers to tell the story of sacred quartet singing in New York City's African-American church community, as it evolved from 'a cappela' jubilee quartets in the 1920s to the exuberant gospel quartets of the 1950s and the smooth contemporary groups of the 1980s. It formed a symbolic bridge between the rural south and the realities of the urban north. A publication of the American Folklore Society. Photographs, notes at the end of each chapter, bibliography, index. xx, 268 pp. 1991. University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0812213319 9780812213317 [US]

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991,pbk 268pp illustr very slight shelfwear at extremities otherwise an excellent clean tight unmarked copy almost as new. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, pbk ISBN 0812213319 9780812213317 [US]