Sweet Mother: Modern African Music (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

By Wolfgang Bender

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 struggle and
liberation of South Africa--and locates each in its
social, political, and historical context. Sweet
Mother contains information available in no other
single source, including an extensive discography and
bibliography.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226042545
• ISBN13: 9780226042541
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

An absolute MUST HAVE

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