Africa and the blues:
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Main Author: Kubik, Gerhard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson, Miss. University Press of Mississippi ©1999
Series:African American music reference
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and indexes
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 240 pages)
ISBN:0585203180
9780585203188

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