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Music: Congolese Rumba / Soukous

This guide is designed to help you find materials available from the Houston Cole Library for research in music.

Congolese Rumba / Soukous

Bakolo Music International, the oldest traditional Congolese rumba music group during a rehearsal in Kinshasa (2014)
Photo by Jeanne Vu Van

Sound Recordings from the Library available on CD

Rough Guide to Congolese Soukous
Call Number: M 1838.C6718 C65 2000
Rough Guide to Congo Gold
Call Number: M 1838.C6718 R68 2008

Rumba Guitar

Books

Breakout by Gary Stewart
Call Number: ML 3502.5 .S73 1992
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music vol. 1 Africa by Ruth M. Stone (Editor)
Call Number: Reference ML 100 .G16 1998

This book is located in the Reference Collection and is for Library use only.
Language, Rhythm, and Sound by Adrianne R. Andrews; Joseph K. Adjaye (Editor)
ISBN: 0822939673

Publication Date: 1997-03-01
Music Is the Weapon of the Future by Frank Tenaille; Akwa Belote (Photographer); Stephen Toussaint (Translator); Hope Sandrine (Translator); Akwa Betote (Photographer)
Call Number: ML 3502.9 .T4613 2002
Rumba on the River by Gary Stewart
Publication Date: 2004
Sweet Mother by Wolfgang Bender; Wolfgang Freis (Translator)
Call Number: ML 3502.5 .B4613 1991