Title Africa and the blues / Gerhard Kubik

Published Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps Series African American music reference 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Blues (Music) -- African influences. Black people -- Africa -- Music -- History and criticism Music -- Africa -- History and criticism MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Blues. MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Soul & R 'n B. Black people -- Music Blues (Music) -- African influences Music Blues Blues. Black studies. Blues -- Influence africaine. Africains -- Musique. Musique -- Afrique. Africa Afrika Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0585203180 9780585203188 9781604737288 160473728X

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