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Gerhard Kubik: Africa and the Blues

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Kubik, Gerhard: Africa and the Blues.

Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi: 1999

ISBN 1-57806-145-8 or 1-57806-146-6

Has anyone here read this book? He presents a new perspective on the Blues based on his research on Agrican Music, deducting the specific blues tonality from African pentatonic scales confronted with Western intsrument tunings and scales. I find his thesis much more convincing than other blues "theories" especially by German scholar Carlo Bohländer.

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