Africa and the Blues

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Gerhard Kubik

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Paperback / softback

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In this text, Kubik doggedly traces the remote genealogies of African culture music through no less than 18 African nations, especially in the Western and Central Sudanic Belt. The is illustrated with over 30 photographs.'

Author Biography:

Gerhard Kubik is one of the best-known scholars in the field of ethnomusicology and author of numerous books over a lengthy career. A cultural anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and psychoanalyst, Kubik researches music, dance, and oral traditions in Africa and the Americas. He is author of Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I: The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture and Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II: Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Release date Australia

November 30th, 1999

Author

Gerhard Kubik

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

260

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9781578061464

Product ID

4182129

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