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Africa and the blues

Author: Gerhard Kubik
Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©1999.
Series: American made music series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Kubik, Gerhard, 1934-
Africa and the blues.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1999
(OCoLC)622655850
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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