Africa and the Blues

by Gerhard Kubik

Book Overview

In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through connections like these Kubik realized that the link between these two far-flung musicians is African-American music, the sound that became the blues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578061466
• ISBN13: 9781578061464
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"