Studies in African Music by A.M. Jones

Posted on 08 January 2009

In the two videos below, from Pitchfork TV, Steve Reich talks about his music (along with lots of nice, but brief examples) - he mentions a book called Studies in African Music by A.M. Jones which was his first introduction to the complexity of rhythms in African music. I went to hunt for this book, and to my surprise although not available on Amazon, it is available complete online for free, at archive.org. Here are the links:

Volume 1 (click on PDF on the left hand side)
Volume 2

Here are the Reich videos:






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