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Kubik, Gerhard: |
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 i2-Bar Blues Form in South African kwela and
it’s Reinterpretation 161
12. Return to the Western Sudan 186
Summary and Conclusions 197
Bibliography 205
Index 225