Africa and the blues

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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 evolut…

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Full title :Africa and the blues / Gerhard Kubik.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1999.
Edition:Print-on-demand ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
Place of Publication:Jackson
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1999.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1283434660, 9781283434669, 9786613434661, 6613434663, 160473728X, 9781604737288, 0585203180, 9780585203188, 1578061466, 9781578061464
oclc:on1058097004
LC Classification:ML3521
Dewey Decimal:781.643/096

pt. 1. Out of Africa -- pt. 2. Return to Africa.

Subjects

Africa Black people -- Music Black people -- Music -- Africa Blues (Music) -- African influences Criticism, interpretation, etc Music Music -- History and criticism. -- Afri… Musique -- Histoire et critique. -- Afr…