| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
African American music reference
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Blues (Music) -- African influences.
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Blues (Music) -- African influences. |
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Black people -- Africa -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Black people. |
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Africa. |
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Music -- Africa -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Blues. |
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Music. |
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Soul & R 'n B. |
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Black people -- Music. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kubik, Gerhard, 1933- Africa and the blues. Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, ©1999 1578061458 (DLC) 99024343 (OCoLC)40964926 |
| ISBN |
0585203180 (electronic book) |
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9780585203188 (electronic book) |
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9781604737288 |
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160473728X |
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1578061458 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1578061466 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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9781578061457 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781578061464 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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