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Jazz Feedback to Africa

1987; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3052161

1945-2349

Edmund John Collins,

Sports, Gender, and Society

Since the early 1930s musicologists have written extensively on the African element within the black performing arts of the Americas; one only has to think of the ground-breaking scholarly work of M. J. Herskovits' in this respect. Considerably less well documented is the acculturated dance that appeared on the African coast as a syncretic fusion of local African and imported dance, drama, and music, a fusion that A. M. Jones calls neofolk music in his epic study of the Ewe of Ghana.2 In the course of his discussion of the Ewe