Containing details of 390 L.P. and E.P. recordings,African Music on LP: An Annotated Discographycontributed to the scholarship of African music at a time when very little had been written. Organized by record label and arranged in alphabetical order, Allen P. Merriam assesses the stylistic characteristics of each recording, providing new insights on the subject and the recording industry at the time of publication.African Music on LPalso contains 18 indexes cross-referencing each of the records.

Last modified

• 08/09/2018

Creator

• Alan P. Merriam

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N25X4W

Subject

• African Studies

Publisher

• Northwestern University Press

Keyword

• Music

Date created

• 1972

Resource type

• Book

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International