In printStandard scholarly reference
Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire
Bob W. White · Duke University Press · 2008
Why this source matters
Ethnography from inside a Kinshasa band, explaining the seben, the atalaku and the dance-craze economy that produced ndombolo; the best account of how Congolese dance moves are commissioned, named and circulated.
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