| Description |
1 online resource (261 pages) |
| Contents |
List of Examples; List of Figures; List of Photographs; Preface; Part I. Out of Africa; Introduction; 1 -- Sources, Adaptation and Innovation; 2 -- The Rise of a Sung Literary Genre; 3 -- A Strange Absence; 4 -- The West Central Sudanic Belt; 5 -- Blues Recordings Compared with Material from the Central Sudanic Savannah; 6 -- Some Characteristics of the Blues; 7 -- Why Did a West Central Sudanic Style Cluster Prevail in the Blues?; 8 -- Heterophonic versus Homophonic Multi-Part Schemes; 9 -- The Blues Tonal System; 10 -- The "Flatted Fifth"; Part II. Return to Africa; Introduction |
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11 -- The 12-Bar Blues Form in South African kwela and its Reinterpretation12 -- Return to the Western Sudan; Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; Artists and authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; African ethnic-linguistic designations; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Song titles index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Y; Z; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
| Summary |
In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through connections like these Kubik realized that the link between these two far-flung musicians is African-American music, the sound that became the blues. Such discoveries reveal a narrative of music evolution for Kubik, a cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. Traveling in Africa, Brazil, Venezuel |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Music -- Africa -- History and criticism
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Black people -- Africa -- Music -- History and criticism
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Blues (Music) -- African influences.
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Black people -- Music
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Blues (Music) -- African influences
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Music
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781604737288 |
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160473728X |
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9781578061464 |
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1578061466 |
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1578061458 |
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9781578061457 |
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