African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms

Author: John Miller Chernoff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: african, musical, idioms, action, aesthetics, rhythm, sensibility, social
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1981-10-15
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0226103455
ISBN-13: 9780226103457

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"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."--Andrew Tracey, African Music

"Ethnomusicologists must be proud that their discipline has produced a book that will, beyond doubt, rank as a classic of African studies."--Peter Fryer, Research in Literatures


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