Gerhard Kubik: 7 books
by Gerhard Kubik
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through...
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II
Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second volume amplifies how musicians influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop in Africa from the...
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I
The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and how jazz has been defined...
by Gerhard Kubik
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Brazil owes a significant portion of its social and cultural heritage of several West and Central African cultures. Due to his intensive knowledge of the African culture renown ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik has studied the presence of African culture phenomena in several research trips in Brazil....
by Gerhard Kubik
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma and...
Schach 2012
In 12 Schritten zum spirituellen Schachmeister
Language: German
Release Date: March 5, 2013
2012 ist mit großen Veränderungen unseres Bewusstseins zu rechnen. Die uralten Kulturen berichten, dass alte Strukturen zerstört werden und die Menschen in neue Dimensionen vorstoßen können. Im Schach ist es dem Turnierspieler Gerhard Kubik gelungen, das spirituelle Geheimnis 2012 zu lösen. In...
Die Psychotricks der Schachprofis
Analyse der Schach-WM 2016
Language: German
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Das Buch "Die Psychotricks der Schachprofis" ist eine Analyse der Schach-WM 2016. Es werden sowohl psychologische Feinheiten als auch krasse Fehltritte aufgezeigt. Gleichzeitig werden Lösungsvorschläge präsentiert. Davon können Schachspieler jeder Spielstärke profitieren. Doch auch Nicht-Schachspieler...