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    Listening for Africa Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins

    Duke University Press

    In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930s and 1950s.

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