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Africa and the Blues

By: Gerhard Kubik

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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, Venezuela, and the United States, he spent forty years in the field gathering the material for Africa and the Blues. In this book, Kubik relentlessly traces the remote genealogies of African cultural music through eighteen African nations, especially in the Western and Central Sudanic Belt. Included is a comprehensive map of this cradle of the blues, along with 31 photographs gathered in his fieldwork. The author also adds clear musical notations and descriptions of both African and African American traditions and practices and calls into question the many assumptions about which elements of the blues were "European" in origin and about which came from Africa. Unique to this book is Kubik's insight into the ways present-day African musicians have adopted and enlivened the blues with their own traditions. With scholarly care but with an ease for the general reader, Kubik proposes an entirely new theory on blue notes and their origins. Tracing what musical traits came from Africa and what mutations and mergers occurred in the Americas, he shows that the African American tradition we call the blues is truly a musical phenomenon belonging to the African cultural world [Publisher description].

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578061466

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Theory of African Music, Volume II

By: Gerhard Kubik

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Theory of African Music, Volume II

By: Gerhard Kubik

Vol. 1 previously published in 1994 by F. Noetzel.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226456943

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Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I

The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture

By: Gerhard Kubik

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Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I

The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture

By: Gerhard Kubik

A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and how jazz has been defined and redefined. It also celebrates the phenomena of jazz performance and uncovers hidden gems of jazz history. The volume offers insights gathered during Kubik's extensive field work and based on in-depth interviews with jazz musicians around the Atlantic world. Languages, world views, beliefs, experiences, attitudes, and commodities all play a role. Kubik reveals what is most important--the expertise of individual musical innovators on both sides of the Atlantic, and hidden relationships in their thoughts. Besides the common African origins of much vocabulary and structure, all the expressions of jazz in Africa share transatlantic family relationships. Within that framework, musicians are creating and re-creating jazz in never-ending contacts and exchanges. The first of two volumes, Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I examines this transatlantic history, sociolinguistics, musicology, and the biographical study of personalities in jazz during the twentieth century. This volume traces the African and African American influences on the creation of the jazz sound and traces specific African traditions as they transform into American jazz. Kubik seeks to describe the constant mixing of sources and traditions, so he includes influences of European music in both volumes. These works will become essential and indelible parts of jazz history.

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1626746591

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Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II

Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa

By: Gerhard Kubik

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Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II

Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa

By: Gerhard Kubik

A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second volume amplifies how musicians influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop in Africa from the end of World War II into the 1970s were interacting with each other and re-creating jazz. Much like the first volume, Kubik examines musicians who adopted a wide variety of jazz genres, from the jive and swing of the 1940s to modern jazz. Drawing on personal encounters with the artists, as well as his extensive field diaries and engagement with colleagues, Kubik looks at the individual histories of musicians and composers within jazz in Africa. He pays tribute to their lives and work in a wider social context. The influences of European music are also included in both volumes as it is the constant mixing of sources and traditions that Kubik seeks to describe. Each of these groundbreaking volumes explores the international cultural exchange that shaped and continues to shape jazz. Together, these volumes culminate an integral recasting of international jazz history.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496806093

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Extensions of African Cultures in Brazil

By: Gerhard Kubik

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Extensions of African Cultures in Brazil

By: Gerhard Kubik

Brazil owes a significant portion of its social and cultural heritage of several West and Central African cultures. Due to his intensive knowledge of the African culture renown ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik has studied the presence of African culture phenomena in several research trips in Brazil. His insights and interpretations in areas such as language, music, religion, and social organization lead to entirely new perspectives in terms of the share of Africa in the molding process of new cultures on the other side of the Atlantic. Gerhard Kubik's very lively written book is not only a milestone in the study of Afro-Latin and African diaspora cultures, but as it will prove to be a reference for future African and African diaspora culture-related issues.

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Diasporic Africa Press

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1937306135

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Tusona - Luchazi Ideographs

A Graphic Tradition of West-Central Africa. 2nd enlarged Edition

By: Gerhard Kubik

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Tusona - Luchazi Ideographs

A Graphic Tradition of West-Central Africa. 2nd enlarged Edition

By: Gerhard Kubik

Various graphic systems designed to express and transmit ideas or to convey messages were known in sub-Saharan Africa in pre-colonial times, ideographic and pictographic systems. One of the most intriguing of these traditions, known across eastern Angola into northwestern Zambia, among speakers of Luchazi, Chokwe, Lwena and related languages is the tusona ideographs. This work is a fascinating excursion into symbolism, the remote history of eastern Angola, Luchazi oral literature, mathematics, graphic art and communication.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3825876012

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Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I

The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture

By: Gerhard Kubik

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The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture

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Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II

Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa

By: Gerhard Kubik

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Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa

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Africa and the Blues

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Africa and the Blues

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A narrative that explores the African genealogy of American Blues

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Theory of African Music, Volume I

By: Gerhard Kubik

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Theory of African Music, Volume I

By: Gerhard Kubik

Vol. 1 previously published in 1994 by F. Noetzel.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226456919

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Biomagnetism

Fundamental Research and Clinical Applications

By: L. Deecke,Gerhard Stroink

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Biomagnetism

Fundamental Research and Clinical Applications

By: L. Deecke,Gerhard Stroink

Biomagnetism involves the investigation of bioelectric processes as reflected by their accompanying magnetic fields. These processes can be monitored in the brain, heart, peripheral nerve or gastrointestinal tract. SQUID technology can also be used for biosusceptometry in lung, liver and intestines. Biomagnetism also includes theoretical issues as encountered in the inverse problem, modelling, fundamentals, physics and mathematics of the method, technical applications and instrumentation, as well as future aspects.

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IOS Press

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9051992335

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Dynamics of Rockslides and Rockfalls

By: Theodor H. Erismann,Gerhard Abele

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Dynamics of Rockslides and Rockfalls

By: Theodor H. Erismann,Gerhard Abele

Mass movement of rocks in high mountains can severely injure the population and damage man-made structures in these areas. This book focuses on the understanding of the mechanisms of rockslides and rockfalls using a quantitative approach. The range and velocity of these hazards are calculated to serve as a basis for evacuations and other preventive measures. Examples from four continents illustrate the necessity of this kind of information. The book contains a wealth of information for practitioners and scientists working in the field of catastrophe prevention.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662046393

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International Lateinamerika-Kolloquium 2009

By: Gerhard Wörner,Stefan Möller-McNett

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International Lateinamerika-Kolloquium 2009

By: Gerhard Wörner,Stefan Möller-McNett

The International Lateinamerika-Kolloquium, held in April 2009 at the Geosciences Centre of the Georg-August-Universitt̃ Gt̲tingen, brings together researchers from all fields of earth sciences. The abstracts contained in this volume cover a wide range of topics on the geological evolution of the South American continent and its margins, such as processes of mountain building, uplift and erosion as well as interaction between tectonic and climatic parameters. Topics of the Lateinamerika-Kolloquium also cover landscape evolution, ecology, natural resources, geo-hazards and economic geology.

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Universitätsverlag Göttingen

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394034477X

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9783940344779

Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil

By: Gerhard Kubik

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Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil

By: Gerhard Kubik

The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma and simultaneously in Africa was often looked at unhistorically. In this book, world-renowned ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik considers African music and dance forms as the products of people living in various African cultures which have changed continuously in history, absorbing and processing elements from inside and outside the continent, creating new styles and fashions all the time. African diaspora music then appears as a consequent and creative extension overseas of African musical cultures that have existed in the period between the sixteenth and the twentieth century. From this perspective African diaspora music cannot be described adequately in terms of "retentions" and "survivals," as if African cultures in the Americas were doomed from the outset and perhaps only by some act of mercy permitted to "retain" certain elements. Using field research and documentary sources, Kubik tracks down some aspects of the Angolan dimension in the panorama of African music and dance cultures in Brazil, and also addresses methodology applicable in the wider context of African diaspora cultural studies.

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1937306100

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Tusona - Luchazi Ideographs

A Graphic Tradition of West-Central Africa. 2nd enlarged Edition

By: Gerhard Kubik

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A Graphic Tradition of West-Central Africa. 2nd enlarged Edition

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Book's by Gerhard Kubik

Africa and the Blues

Africa and the Blues

Theory of African Music, Volume II

Theory of African Music, Volume II

Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I

Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I

Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II

Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II

Extensions of African Cultures in Brazil

Extensions of African Cultures in Brazil

Tusona - Luchazi Ideographs

Tusona - Luchazi Ideographs

Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I

Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I

Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II

Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II

Africa and the Blues

Africa and the Blues

Theory of African Music, Volume I

Theory of African Music, Volume I

Biomagnetism

Biomagnetism

Dynamics of Rockslides and Rockfalls

Dynamics of Rockslides and Rockfalls

International Lateinamerika-Kolloquium 2009

International Lateinamerika-Kolloquium 2009

Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil

Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil

Tusona - Luchazi Ideographs

Tusona - Luchazi Ideographs

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