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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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Ahobobo: On the Sacramental Imagination in West Africa, Benin, 2006-2008 by Yanick St Publisher Comments 'Les ecoles Catholiques? C'est une bonne chose. . . . Beaucoup de cadres de ce pays sont passes par la. . . . Nous voulons aussi que l'ecole des vodunsi connaisse le jour.' We hear a dignitary of Vodou confirm the force of Catholicism in Benin. Other... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.50 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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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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Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire by Bob W White Publisher Comments Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying “happy are those who sing and dance,” and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource. During... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora by Samuel Charters Publisher Comments In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters—one of the pioneering collectors of African American music—writes of a trip to West Africa where he found “a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.50 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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Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent times by Marissa Jean 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 $21.99 Your price: $19.52 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times with CD (Audio) (New African Histories) 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) Your price: $28.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sweet Mother: Modern African Music by Wolfgang Bender Publisher Comments Bender offers the first cultural history of modern African music. He describes the whole range of African musical genres—from the Senegambian/Manding style through Congolese soukous, Cameroonian makossa, West African Highlife, and the music of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Africa O-Ye!: A Celebration of African Music by Graeme Ewens Description Discography: p. 216-217. Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-219) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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African Music a Peoples Art by Francis Bebey Description Includes bibliographical references.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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African Music: a People's 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: $5.95 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 closely at... (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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