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    Theory of African Music, Volume I
    Theory of African Music, Volume I
    Theory of African Music, Volume I
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    Theory of African Music, Volume I

    By Gerhard Kubik

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    Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continent to compare and contrast a wealth of musical traditions from a range of cultures.


    In the first volume, Kubik describes and examines xylophone playing in southern Uganda and harp music from the Central African Republic; compares multi-part singing from across the continent; and explores movement and sound in eastern Angola. And in the second volume, he turns to the cognitive study of African rhythm, Yoruba chantefables, the musical Kachamba family of Malaŵi, and African conceptions of space and time.


    Each volume features an extensive number of photographs and is accompanied by a compact disc of Kubik’s own recordings. Erudite and exhaustive, Theory of African Music will be an invaluable reference for years to come.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateAug 27, 2010
    ISBN9780226456928
    Theory of African Music, Volume I
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    Gerhard Kubik

    Gerhard Kubik is one of the best-known scholars in the field of ethnomusicology and author of numerous books over a lengthy career. A cultural anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and psychoanalyst, Kubik researches music, dance, and oral traditions in Africa and the Americas. He is author of Africa and the Blues; Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I: The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture; and Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II: Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

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