| LC control no. | sh 00000685 |
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| Topical heading | Soukous (Music) |
| Variant(s) | Soukouss (Music) |
| See also | Popular music--Africa |
| Found in | Work cat.: 00511518: Soukouss Club. Tenue correcte exigée, 199-. Peng. encyc. of popular music, 1990 (Soukous; genre emerging in Congo/Zaire now widely played throughout Africa; early influences include highlife and the Cuban rumba; lyrics are often in Lingala; guitars predominate in ensembles of as many as 20 musicians) White, D. Dict. of popular music styles of the world, c1998 (Soukous; popular modern Congolese rumba music; the term is entered under Angola, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), and Congo (Kinshasa); the term means body movement from the French secouer, to shake) Wicke, P. Handbuch der populären Musik, 1997 (Soukous; a rumba-like form of popular music from Zaire which became known in Europe during the 1970's through the performances of emigrant groups in Paris) |
| Not found in | New Grove dict. of music; New Harvard dict. of music; Guinness encyc. of popular music; Web. 3 |
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