Sweet mother : modern African music

Author(s)

• Bender, Wolfgang
• Chernoff, John Miller
• Freis, Wolfgang

Bibliographic Information

Sweet mother : modern African music

Wolfgang Bender ; with a foreword by John M. Chernoff ; translated by Wolfgang Freis

（Chicago studies in ethnomusicology）

University of Chicago Press, 1991

• : cloth : acid-free paper
• : pbk

Other Title

Sweet mother : moderne afrikanische Musik

Note

Translation of: Sweet mother

Bibliography: p. 205-213

Discography: p. 215-235

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: cloth : acid-free paper ISBN 9780226042534

Description

Bender offers the first cultural history of modernAfrican music. He describes the whole range of Africanmusical genres from the Senegambian/Manding stylethrough Congolese soukous, Cameroonian makossa, WestAfrican Highlife, and the music of struggle andliberation of South Africa and locates each in itssocial, political, and historical context. "Sweet ""Mother" contains information available in no othersingle source, including an extensive discography andbibliography."

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780226042541

Description

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."

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Details

• NCID: BA12506248
• ISBN:
  • 0226042537
  • 0226042545
• LCCN: 90020316
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 235 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ML3502.5
  • DC20 : 780/.96
  • NDC8 : 762.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Popular music -- Africa -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10993090