Africa and the Blues.

Africa and the Blues.

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 co...

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Main Author: Kubik, Gerhard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2008.
Subjects:
Music > Africa > History and criticism.
Black people > Africa > Music > History and criticism.
Blues (Music) > African influences.
Black people > Music
Blues (Music) > African influences
Music
Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.
  • 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.

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