Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Offers approximately 250 paintings, engravings, and drawings which depict scenes of music, dance, religious practice, and storytelling in the everyday lives of African-Americans.   Publisher Summary 2 Bringing together a body of imagery devoted to the culture of African- Americans, this book includes approximately 250 paintings, engravings, and drawings which depict scenes of music, dance, religious practice, and storytelling in the everyday lives of African-Americans. Approximately 120 artists are represented, including Charles Demuth, Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and William Sidney Mount. Southern (music and Afro-American studies, Harvard University, emerita) and Wright (music and Black studies, College of Wooster) focus on identifying, describing, and analyzing the cultural art forms and activities that lie at the roots of African-American traditional culture as represented in the pictorial record. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)