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Eric Charry

Eric Charry
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    • A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B
    • Mande Music
    • Four Cultural Vanguards: Music and Downtown New York, 1950s-1960s
      • Running Downtown
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Welcome

to the homepage of Eric Charry (echarry@wesleyan.edu).

  A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B (2020)

 Hip Hop Africa (2012)

  Mande  Music (2000)

Work-in-progress

  • Four Cultural Vanguards: Music and Downtown New York, 1950s-1960s

Online articles

  • “Grammy Awards: Africa finally has its own category — but at what cost?” The Conversation (February 1, 2024)
  • “Kora: in search of the origins of west Africa’s famed stringed musical instrument,” The Conversation (November 9, 2023)
  • “After ‘Rapper’s Delight,’ hip-hop went global – its impact has been massive; so too efforts to keep it real,” The Conversation (June 13, 2023)
  • “A Guide to the Jembe,” Percussive Notes (April 1996)
  • Print articles available at academia.edu

Photo credit (Eric Charry): 1956 Gretsch Electromatic Streamliner (6189) guitar.

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