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Page 642
... West Africa to the United States , jazz would never have evolved , either in the United States or Africa , for jazz is the expression in music of the African native who is isolated both socially and geographically from his natural ...
... West Africa to the United States , jazz would never have evolved , either in the United States or Africa , for jazz is the expression in music of the African native who is isolated both socially and geographically from his natural ...
Page 662
... West . Notched turtle cara- paces are scraped in the Caribbean . The jawbone ... Africa . Drumming tradition in the Muslim north centres on smaller ... Africa . Black Africa makes perhaps wider use of its membranophones than does any ...
... West . Notched turtle cara- paces are scraped in the Caribbean . The jawbone ... Africa . Drumming tradition in the Muslim north centres on smaller ... Africa . Black Africa makes perhaps wider use of its membranophones than does any ...
Page 995
... Africa ( 1988 ) . An excellent handbook is WILFRID KNAPP , North West Africa : A Political and Economic Survey , 3rd ed . ( 1977 ) ; it may be updated by RICHARD LAWLESS and ALLAN FINDLAY ( eds . ) , North Africa : Contemporary Politics ...
... Africa ( 1988 ) . An excellent handbook is WILFRID KNAPP , North West Africa : A Political and Economic Survey , 3rd ed . ( 1977 ) ; it may be updated by RICHARD LAWLESS and ALLAN FINDLAY ( eds . ) , North Africa : Contemporary Politics ...
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