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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kubik, Gerhard, 1934- Africa and the blues. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1999 (OCoLC)622655850 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gerhard Kubik |
| ISBN: | 1578061458 9781578061457 1578061466 9781578061464 |
| OCLC Number: | 40964926 |
| Description: | xviii, 240 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Sources, adaptations and innovation -- The rise of a sung literary genre -- A strange absence -- The West Central Sudanic belt -- Blues recordings compared with material from the Central Sudanic Savannah -- Some characteristics of the blues -- Why did a West Central Sudanic style cluster prevail in the blues? -- Heterophonic versus homophonic multi-part schemes -- The blues tonal system -- The "Flatted Fifth" -- The 12-Bar Blues form in South African kwela and its reinterpretation -- Return to the western Sudan. |
| Series Title: | American made music series. |
| Responsibility: | Gerhard Kubik. |
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