Music in East Africa
Subtitle: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series)
Edition: Har/Com edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780195141511
Subjects: Music; Music/Songbooks; Audio Adult: Other; East Africa; Ethnomusicology; Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional; History & Criticism - General; Music / Ethnomusicology; Ethnic; Instruction & Study - Appreciation; Africa, East; History and criticism; Social life and customs
First sentence: East Africa, often referred to as the "cradle of humanity," is the geographic home to the Great Rift Valley cutting through the center of this area of sub-Saharan Africa.