TY - BOOK ID - 138478433 TI - Africa and the blues PY - 1999 SN - 1621030857 1283434660 9786613434661 160473728X 0585203180 9780585203188 9781604737288 1578061458 1578061466 9781578061457 9781578061464 PB - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, DB - UniCat KW - Blues (Music) KW - Black people KW - Music KW - African influences. KW - History and criticism. KW - Blues KW - Africains KW - Musique KW - Influence africaine. KW - Musique. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138478433 AB - 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. Such discoveries reveal a narrative of music evolution for Kubik, a cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. Traveling in Africa, Brazil, Venezuel ER -