Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos

Gary Stewart · Verso Books · 2000

Why this source matters

The detailed narrative history of Congolese popular music from the 1940s to the soukous era, built on interviews with the musicians; the reference for dating ndombolo's antecedents.

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