دانلود کتاب Africa and the Blues

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Africa and the Blues
Contents
List of Examples
List of Figures
List of Photographs
Preface
Part I. Out of Africa
Introduction
1 Sources, Adaptation and Innovation
2 The Rise of a Sung Literary Genre
3 A Strange Absence
4 The West Central Sudanic Belt
5 Blues Recordings Compared with Material from the Central Sudanic Savannah
6 Some Characteristics of the Blues
7 Why Did a West Central Sudanic Style Cluster Prevail in the Blues?
8 Heterophonic versus Homophonic Multi-Part Schemes
9 The Blues Tonal System
10 The “Flatted Fifth”
Part II. Return to Africa
Introduction
11 The 12-Bar Blues Form in South African kwela and its Reinterpretation
12 Return to the Western Sudan
Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography
Index