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Blues (Music)--African influences, Blacks--Africa--Music--History and criticism, Music--Africa--History and criticism.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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ML3521.K83 1999eb
ddc
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781.643/096
subject
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Blues (Music)--African influences, Blacks--Africa--Music--History and criticism, Music--Africa--History and criticism.
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Africa and the Blues
Gerhard Kubik
University Press of Mississippi Jackson
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http://www.upress.state.ms.us
Copyright 1999 by Gerhard Kubik All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kubik, Gerhard, 1933 Africa and the blues / Gerhard Kubik. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57806-145-8 (cloth : alk. paper).ISBN 1-57806-146-6 (paper: alk. Paper) 1. Blues (Music)African influences. 2. BlacksAfricaMusic History and criticism. 3. MusicAfricaHistory and criticism. I. Title ML3521.K83 1999 781.643'096dc21 99-24343 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
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CONTENTS
List of Examples
vii
List of Figures
ix
List of Photographs
xi
Preface
xiii
Part I. Out of Africa
Introduction
3
1- Sources, Adaptation and Innovation
5
2 - The Rise of a Sung Literary Genre
21
3 - A Strange Absence
51
4 - The West Central Sudanic Belt
63
5 - Blues Recordings Compared with Material from the Central Sudanic Savannah
71
6 - Some Characteristics of the Blues
82
7 - Why Did a West Central Sudanic Style Cluster Prevail in the Blues?
96
8 - Heterophonic versus Homophonic Multi-Part Schemes
105
9 - The Blues Tonal System
118
10 - The "Flatted Fifth"
146
Part II. Return to Africa
Introduction
155
11 - The 12-Bar Blues Form in South African kwela and its Reinterpretation
161
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12 - Return to the Western Sudan
186
Summary and Conclusions
197
Bibliography
205
Index
225
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List of Examples
1
Text of one of Limited Mfundo's songs: "Kwa chaGoma!"
2
Text of "Death Room Blues," by Blind Willie McTell.
3
Daniel Kachamba's song about his own funeral, "Maliro a Kachamba."
4
Text of "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean," by Blind Lemon Jefferson.
5
Bukka White, "Fixin' to Die Blues."
6
The text of "Canned Heat Blues," by John Henry "Bubba" Brown.
7
"Baba ol'd" (Father of the river)Yoruba story song showing three-line strophic form structurally comparable to the 12-bar blues.
8
Melodic lines of a grinding song by a Tikar woman from Central Cameroon (transcription).
9
Vocal line with text of the first stanza of Mississippi Matilda's "Hard Working Woman" (transcription).
10
Passage from "Two Jim Blues" by George Lewis (transcription).
11
Ed Bell (vocal and guitar), "Mean Conductor Blues" (transcription).
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