Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.