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.