%0 Book %A August Schmidhofer %A Dietrich Schüller %D 1995 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %T For Gerhard Kubik %B Festschrift on the occasion of his 60th birthday %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1115608 %X This volume in honour of Gerhard Kubik comprises a broad range of contributions from among his worldwide circle of friends and admirers. Its contents have been loosely assorted into four sections, reflecting different facets of Kubik's widely varied interests: African Music Studies, Extensions of African Cultures in the Americas, Towards Intercultural Understanding, and Miscellaneous. Gerhard Kubik, born in 1934 in Vienna, has done - and is still doing - extensive field work in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South America for 35 years. The impressive results of his research have highly influenced the panorama of African musicology and cultural anthropology. %G English