Africa and the Blues (American Made Music) by Gerhard Kubik ISBN 13: 9781578061464

University Press of Mississippi, 1999. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University Press of Mississippi, 1999. paperback. Kubik, Gerhard : Africa and the Blues (American Made Music Series). Jackson (MS) : University Press of Mississippi, 1999. Size is octavo (8vo), 9"/23cm h. Bound in publisher's matte color pictorial wrappers. Xx pp prelim material, 240 numbered pp, plus four blank. Contents, list of musical examples, list of figures, list of photos, author's preface; Part I ("Out of Africa" - intro plus 10 chaps), Part II ("Return to Africa" - intro and two chaps); summary/conclusions, bibliography, indices (of artists/authors, African ethnic-linguistic terms, and general). Condition notes: this is an ex-library copy with the typical array of stamps and stickers indicating such. Moderate wear to wrappers, light soiling to edges. Interior shows scattered pencil notes/marginalia, else unmarked. "In 1969 [the author] chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable… Read More

University Press of Mississippi. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

University Press of Mississippi. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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Roundhouse Publishing Ltd, 1999. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New. Travelling in Africa, Brazil, Venezuela, and the United States, Gerhard Kubik has spent forty years in the field gathering the material for <em>Africa and the Blues</em>. In this book, he relentlessly traces the remote genealogies of African cultural music through eighteen African nations, especially in the Western and Central Sudanic Belt.

University Press of Mississippi, 1999-11-04. paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!