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Article: African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art, and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- September 1, 1994
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John Gray, an indefatigable bibliographer of African and African-American expressive culture, has provided us with the first reasonably up-to-date map of a vast and widely scattered body of literature. Although his bibliographic guide to African music is largely unannotated, it is remarkably comprehensive. Gray focuses on Africa below the Sahara, covering publications in English, French, German, Italian, and Russian, and taking in a large body of journalistic writing on popular music. African Music contains 5,105 citations, organized into six main sections loosely identifiable as cultural history and the arts, ethnomusicology, traditional music, popular music, art music, and ...