African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms by John M. Chernoff

African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms

John M. Chernoff

280 pages 1979

1 edition

nonfiction music challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"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, an...

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