Song of the Shank

Illustration & Epigraph Credits

Carved Door in Darkness (page 4) is from Sally Price & Richard Price, Maroon Arts, Beacon Press, 1999 (Les arts des Marrons, Vents d’ailleurs, 2005). Reproduced with permission.

Ancient Dhow (page 100) reproduced courtesy of Robert Barnett Photography.

“Path of a Hunted Bird” (page 158) is from African Fractals; reproduced courtesy of Ron Eglash.

Blind Tom and Lerche (page 218) is from Ladies Home Journal, September 1898.

Harp (page 350), MO.0.0.30371, is from the collection of RMCA Tervuren; photo by J. Van de Vyver, RMCA Tervuren. Reproduced with permission.

Newspaper advertisement (page 341) is from the National Archives and Records Administration.

Concert Program cover, special note, and overview (pages 342–344) are from the Library of Congress, Daniel A. P. Murray pamphlet collection, ML417.B3 M3.

Concert Program (pages 345–347) is from Music and Some Highly Musical People by James M. Trotter, Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1878.

Dominican Abbey, Ibadan (page 366) reproduced courtesy of Victor Ehikhamenor.

Harmonograph (page 482) created using www.subblue.com/projects/harmonograph.

Long Exposure of Ocean Waves at the Beach (page 504) by Joyce Vincent; reproduced courtesy 123RF.

Carved Door in Light (page 542) from Sally Price & Richard Price, Maroon Arts, Beacon Press, 1999 (Les arts des Marrons, Vents d’ailleurs, 2005).

The first epigraph is from an unattributed source, the second is an Ewe proverb, and the others are by Frédéric Chopin, Muddy Waters, Hildegard von Bingen, Malcolm X, Skip James, Abbey Lincoln, and Muhummad Ali, respectively.