Chernoff, John Miller. African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms. University of Chicago Press; Revised Edition, 1981.

Chernoff develops a brilliant and penetrating musicological essay that is, at the same time, an intensely personal and even touching account of musical and cultural discovery that anyone with an interest in Africa can and should read. . .. No other writing comes close to approaching Chernoff's ability to convey a feeling of how African music 'works'.

Source: James Koetting, Africana Journal as culled from https://press.uchicago.edu