Notes: | Compact disc. Notes (33 p. : ill.) in German and English by Keith Chandler inserted in container. "24 rare recordings from the early days of the African record industry ... Concertina bands and doo-wop singers from South Africa, accordion groups from Kenya, West African brass bands, unaccompanied vocal and drum ensembles from Nigeria and Tanzania, plus bands from East Africa with their Arabic influences, reveal a huge variety of early African pop music and more traditional styles"--container. Christoph Wagner, idea, conception and realization. Various performers. Recorded in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, Great Britain, Lagos, Nigeria, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Accra, Ghana, and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania between 1929 and the early 1950s.
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