The Da Capo Guide to Contemporary African Music

by Ronnie Graham

The Da Capo Guide to Contemporary African Music is the first ever comprehensive guide to recorded African music. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306803259
• ISBN13: 9780306803253
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

encyclopedic survey of African contemporary music

This is an encyclopedic survey of contemporary sub-Saharan African music up through the mid-1980s. Organized by country, Graham provides a brief background on local traditional and mid-century popular music and then concentrates on the music of the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. Covers religious as well as secular music. Includes brief discographies. I did not identify any factual innaccuracies within the realm of my limited knowledge. Excellent index.