![]() Its master performers and sages who coolly orchestrate sound and silence, beginnings and ends, free improvisation and ritualized order. Its multi-rhythmic configurations, cyclical modes and audience participation. ![]() Its offbeat breaks hidden inside rhythmic and ritual order. ![]() Its musical polarism, rhythmic relativism and metaphysical pluralism. The book’s first section, ‘Ancient African Wisdom’ deals with the symbolic knowledge and intuitions of Sub-Saharan Africa embedded in its music and traditional world-views. This book examines why all this Black ‘roots’ and ethnic music has become the dominant sound of our global age. Since the turn of the century the world has been swept by a succession of Black American dance beats, from Ragtime to Rap and Samba to Soul - followed in recent years by the popular ‘world’ music of Africa itself.
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