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Autore: | Kubik Gerhard <1934-> |
Titolo: | Africa and the blues [[electronic resource] /] / Gerhard Kubik |
Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c1999 |
Edizione: | Print-on-demand ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (261 p.) |
Disciplina: | 781.643/096 |
Soggetto topico: | Blues (Music) - African influences |
Black people - Africa - Music - History and criticism | |
Music - Africa - History and criticism | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Out of Africa -- pt. 2. Return to Africa. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Africa and the blues |
ISBN: | 1-62103-085-7 |
1-283-43466-0 | |
9786613434661 | |
1-60473-728-X | |
0-585-20318-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807270303321 |
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