Garland Handbook of African Music [With CD]

Contributor(s): Stone, Ruth M (Editor)

ISBN: 9780415961028

Publisher: Routledge

Binding Types:

Paperback

$111.99

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$124.94 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$123.74 (100+ copies: $122.99)

List/retail price:

$111.99

Pub Date: June 24, 2008

Dewey: 780.96

LCCN: 2007047402

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.77" H x 9.95" L x 8.02" W ( 2.08 lbs) 528 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Garland Handbooks of World Music

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description:

The Garland Handbook of African Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa, (1997). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Africa.

Review Quotes: While Ruth Stone is the foremost authority on African Music ethnomusiciology, her handbook revision will be assessed by Carol Muller of Univ of Penn, and Michael Bakan of Florida State Univ. Both of them were also authors of the ABC-CLIO volume of South African Music.

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