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Exploring African Music: Unity, Diversity, Diaspora is designed as a core textbook on the cultural and historical diversity of music on the African continent ? comparing and contrasting the regions of North, Eastern, Western Central and Southern Africa. It also examines issues pertaining to the musics of the greater African diaspora, in general, and the African diaspora of North America in particular. Through this textbook, students will be able to recognize and identify musical styles from a diverse sampling of areas of the continent, and understand the significance of these musical traditions to those who make them. It presents African music by geographical region (East, South, West, North, Central) and also according to major African language groupings (Bantu, Khoisan, Pygmy, Nilotic).