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The dramatic cultural upheavals taking place in Africa today will be historical data to our space-ship successors. Since the rate of acceleration of these changes is so rapid that it appears to increase from week to week, it is somewhat questionable whether the historical-minded of the future will have available to them all the necessary pre-acculturative material vital to the reconstruction of a living image of traditional Africa.
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Brandel, R. (1961). Introduction. In: The Music of Central Africa. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0997-8_1
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