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African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetic and Social Action in African and Musical Idioms [Audiobook] (Audio Cassette)

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  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Chicago University Press (1 Aug 1981)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0226103463
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226103464
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 7.1 x 1.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,450,687 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece in analytical cultural exploration, 24 Mar 1999
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This review is from: African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms (Paperback)
What begins as a primer in African polyrhythm becomes a spiritual quest to understand culture and humanity. Don't skip the endnotes in this impassioned examination of musical tonality and rhythm. Forging a tentative balance between scholarship and interpretation, Chernoff's book addresses the subconscious dynamics of culture, and unwittingly explains "race" more convincingly than the agitprop self-promoters whose explicit goal is to deconstruct the historical consciences of Africans and Europeans.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Full of evaluation and a wonder into the culture, 3 April 2001
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This review is from: African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms (Hardcover)
Very interesting, its not as think as you think! Its very specialised, for interest but not a good research tool. Sociology! bah.

It CD takes extracts of particalar music extracts. I think they are too short as its not really an indication.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Classics, 15 April 1999
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This is a remarkable work that fits African music into its cultural context and is consistently provocative and enlightening. It's a world music classic, along with such studies as "The Latin Tinge," "The Brazilian Sound" and "Catch a Fire."
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