Ubuntu Fusion Music

The book examines ethnic inspirations in American jazz, Slovak-American jazz, young French bands with diverse fusion, Hungarian and Czech progressive rock, Czech world music and brass bands, American psychedelic rock, Italian rock & in a Romani-Slovak-Norwegian music project. New music trends embrace the African philosophy of ubuntu.

Dr. Yvetta Kajanová, musicologist, critic, and professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, focuses on the topics of jazz, rock, and pop music. Her major publications are The History of Rock Music (Peter Lang 2014) and Musica Rock: Suono, ritmo, affetto, e l´invenzione della chitarra elettrica (Mimesis International Milano 2022).