Sweet Mother: Modern African Music

Bender offers the first cultural history of modern African music. He describes the whole range of African musical genres-from the Senegambian/Manding style through Congolese soukous, Cameroonian makossa, West African Highlife, and the music of struggle and liberation of South Africa-and locates each in its social, political, and historical context. *Sweet* *Mother* contains information available in no other single source, including an extensive discography and bibliography.