Africa and the blues /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kubik, Gerhard, 1934- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, ©1999.
Series:African American music reference
Subjects:
Blues (Music) > African influences.
Black people > Africa > Music > History and criticism.
Music > Africa > History and criticism.
Musique > Afrique > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Blues.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Soul & R 'n B.
Black people > Music.
Music
Blues
Blues.
Black studies.
Blues > Influence africaine.
Africains > Musique.
Musique > Afrique.
Africa.
Afrika
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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