Africa and the Blues

by Gerhard Kubik

Overview

About the Author:
Kubik, Gerhard is professor in the department of ethnology and African studies at the University of Mainz, Germany. Since 1983 he has been affiliated with the Center for Social Research of Malawi, Zomba. He is a permanent member of the Center for Black Music Research in Chicago and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604737288
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	09/23/2009
Series:	American Made Music Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	260
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

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 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, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Editorial Reviews

Gerhard Kubik analyzes similarities in musical forms and instrumentation to trace the roots of American blues to the west central Sudanic region of Africa. Kubik contends that the music that eventually became the blues owes less to European tradition than previously thought, and that early American, particularly Appalachian, music borrowed heavily from African influences. Kubik also discusses the impact African American blues, jazz and R&B has had on contemporary African music.

Blues Revue