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East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization (Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium) by Mwenda Ntarangwi Synopsis Hip hop music that empowers and engages youth in East... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio by Louise Meintjes Publisher Comments Boosting the bass guitar, blending the vocals, overdubbing percussion while fretting over shoot-outs in the street. Grumbling about a producer, teasing a white engineer, challenging an artist to feel his African beat. Sound of Africa! is a riveting... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $22.15 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Fela: This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore Publisher Comments African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controversy personified. He was swept to international celebrity on a wave of scandal and flamboyance, and when he died of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Music of Africa by J H Kwaben Nketia Publisher Comments The study of African music is a study at once of unity and diversity. The range of indigenous musical resources and practices found on this vast continent is as wide and varies as its topography. In this informative and highly readable book, Professor... (read more) List Price $24.40 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sound of Africa!: Mediating Difference in a South African Music Studio by Louise Meintjes Publisher Comments Focusing on the ways artists, producers, and sound engineers collaborate in the studio control room, Meintjes reveals not only how particular mbaqanga sounds are shaped technically, but also how egos and artistic sensibilities and race and ethnicity... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Garland Handbook of African Music with CD (Audio) (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Ruth M Stone Synopsis Here in a single paperback volume is a comprehensive set of essays that explores all aspects of African music. This handbook provides an introduction to the continent and its many musical forms, including a discussion of issues and processes in the study... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Info Not Available
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In Griot Time: An American Guitarist in Mali by Banning Eyre Publisher Comments Djelimady Tounkara is only one of the memorable people you will meet in this dramatic narrative of life among the griot musicians of Mali. Born into families where music and the tradition of griot story-telling is a heritage and a privilege, Djelimady... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Intonations ; Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, From 1945 To Recent Times - With CD (08 Edition) by Marissa J. Moorman Publisher Comments Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Afropop: An Illustrated Guide To Contemporary African Music by Sean Barlow Publisher Comments A heady blend of African traditional instruments and beat blends with pop culture's sound of rock, jazz, sould and R&B to produce a sound that has exploded onto the international scene.... (read more) List Price $10.98 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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African Music a Peoples Art by Francis Bebey Description "Selective discography, revised and updated by Richard Hill": p. 149-173. "Recent recordings": p. 174-176. Includes bibliographical references.... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Jali Kunda: Griot Music of West Africa & Beyond by Matthew Kopka TOC Allah l'aake (Kolda, Senegal) (2:38) -- Sunjata (Tabato, Guinea-Bissau) (5:40) -- Sinyaro (Brikama, The Gambia) (3:00) -- Mariama (Kolda, Senegal) (4:24) -- Spring waterfall (7:17) -- Jula Faso (Brikama, The Gambia) (3:14) -- Sunjata (Kolda, Senegal) (3... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Info Not Available
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Soul of Mbira: Music & Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe by Paul Berliner Description Bibliography: p. 295-300. Discography: p. 301. Filmography: p. 301.... (read more) Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Breakout: Profiles in African Rhythm by Gary Stewart Publisher Comments Based on exclusive interviews, Breakout tells the often riveting personal stories of fourteen popular musicians—some well known, others not—from Zaire, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The first book on African pop music to look... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Veit Erlmann Publisher Comments In recent years black South African music and dance have become ever more popular in the West, where they are now widely celebrated as expressions of opposition to discrimination and repression. Less well known is the rich history of these arts, which... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms by John Chernoff Publisher Comments "We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."—Andrew Tracey, African Music "John Miller Chernoff, who spent 10 years studying African drumming, has a flair for descriptive writing,... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures by Jacqueline Djedje Synopsis Fiddling has had a lengthy history in Africa which has long been ignored. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje corrects this oversight with an expansive study on fiddling in the Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba cultures of West Africa. DjeDje not only explains the... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Makeba: My Story by Miriam Makeba List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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