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Africa and the blues [electronic resource] / Gerhard Kubik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kubik, Gerhard, 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blues (Music)--African influences.
- Blues (Music).
- Black people--Africa--Music--History and criticism.
- Black people.
- Music--Africa--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- Print-on-demand ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Out of Africa
- pt. 2. Return to Africa.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-62103-085-7
- 1-283-43466-0
- 9786613434661
- 1-60473-728-X
- 0-585-20318-0
- OCLC:
- 779827436
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