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African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe

Author : Mhoze Chikowero
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253018099
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe by : Mhoze Chikowero

Download or read book African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe written by Mhoze Chikowero and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.

African Music

Author : Alexander Akorlie Agordoh
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781594545542
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book African Music written by Alexander Akorlie Agordoh and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is customary in the Western world for people to use the term 'African music' as if it were a single clearly identifiable phenomenon. One should not be surprised at the diversity of music and the difficulty of isolating distinctly African features common to the whole continent. This important book is an overview of music in Africa.

The African Imagination in Music

Author : Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190263202
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The African Imagination in Music written by Kofi Agawu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Imagination in Music offers a fresh introduction to the vast and complex world of Sub-Saharan African music. Through close readings of traditional music and references to popular music, Agawu considers topics including the place of music in society, musical instruments, language and music, and appropriations of African music.

The African Orchestra

Author : Joan Rankin
Publisher : Crocodile Books
ISBN 13 : 9781566560252
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The African Orchestra written by Joan Rankin and published by Crocodile Books. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With magical illustrations from Joan Rankin, and poetry from masterful storyteller, Wendy Hartmann, The African Orchestra lyrically captures the magic of the African sounds of nature. From the clicking of crickets to the crackle of the fire, follow the journey that celebrates these sounds, in the rhythm and music of Africa.

Representing African Music

Author : Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317794060
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Representing African Music written by Kofi Agawu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is an agreed-upon meaning, but African music signifies differently to different people. This book also poses the question then, "What is African music?" Agawu offers a new and provocative look at the history of African music scholarship that will resonate with students of ethnomusicology and post-colonial studies. He offers an alternative "Afro-centric" means of understanding African music, and in doing so, illuminates a different mode of creativity beyond the usual provenance of Western criticism. This book will undoubtedly inspire heated debate--and new thinking--among musicologists, cultural theorists, and post-colonial thinkers. Also includes 15 musical examples.

The Music of Africa

Author : J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Music of Africa written by J. H. Kwabena Nketia and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of African music is a study at once of unity and diversity. The range of indigenous musical resources and practices found on this vast continent is as wide and varies as its topography. In this informative and highly readable book, Professor Nketia provides an overview of the musical traditions of Africa with respect to their historical, cultural, and social background, their organization and practice, and delineates the most significant aspects of musical style.

Hip Hop Africa

Author : Eric Charry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005825
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Hip Hop Africa written by Eric Charry and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of drumming. Covering Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa, this volume offers unique perspectives on the presence and development of hip hop and other music in Africa and their place in global music culture.

Theory of African Music

Author : Gerhard Kubik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226456927
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Theory of African Music written by Gerhard Kubik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continent to compare and contrast a wealth of musical traditions from a range of cultures. In the first volume, Kubik describes and examines xylophone playing in southern Uganda and harp music from the Central African Republic; compares multi-part singing from across the continent; and explores movement and sound in eastern Angola. And in the second volume, he turns to the cognitive study of African rhythm, Yoruba chantefables, the musical Kachamba family of Malaŵi, and African conceptions of space and time. Each volume features an extensive number of photographs and is accompanied by a compact disc of Kubik’s own recordings. Erudite and exhaustive, Theory of African Music will be an invaluable reference for years to come.

Music in the Life of the African Church

Author : Roberta Rose King
Publisher : Baylor University Press
ISBN 13 : 1602580227
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Music in the Life of the African Church written by Roberta Rose King and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furthermore, they extract useful lessons for fostering faith communities around the globe.

Turn Up the Volume!

Author : Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turn Up the Volume! written by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume celebrates the rich and varied musical heritage of Africa. The essays are amply illustrated amd followed by full-colour illustrations of African musical instruments.

Music in East Africa

Author : Gregory F. Barz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Music in East Africa written by Gregory F. Barz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music in East Africa is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present.

Theory of African Music, Volume I

Author : Gerhard Kubik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226456919
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Theory of African Music, Volume I written by Gerhard Kubik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1 previously published in 1994 by F. Noetzel.

Studies in African Music

Author : A. M. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Studies in African Music written by A. M. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music, Performance and African Identities

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136830286
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Music, Performance and African Identities written by Toyin Falola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa.

African American Music

Author : Earl L. Stewart
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book African American Music written by Earl L. Stewart and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Music provides an introduction to all of the richness and diversity of African American musical styles, focusing on the distinct characte4istics and development of each genre. This book is divided into four parts: folk traditions; the jazz aesthetic; black popular styles since 1940; and black theatrical and classical music. Using brief musical examples, the author illustrates and explains the basic concepts that unite all African American styles before discussing each style individually. Among the many types of music explored in individual chapters are spirituals, blues, gospel, ragtime, jazz, pop and classical. Biographical portraits of major musicians and composers, as well as detailed stylistic analyses of each musical genre, make this book not only required reading for any introduction to the field, but a pleasure to read for anyone interested in all of the different styles that comprise African American music. Includes information on Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, bebop, Chuck Berry, blues, boogie woogie, James Brown, call and response, classical music, classic jazz, Sam Cooke, cool jazz, William Levi Dawson, doo wop, Antonin Dvorak, Duke Ellington, free jazz, gospel music, Isaac Hayes, jazz, James Weldon Johnson, Motown Records, Charlie Parker, rags and ragtime, rap music, rhythm and blues, soul music, spirituals, swing, etc. [Publisher description]

Afropop!

Author : Sean Barlow
Publisher : Booksales
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afropop! written by Sean Barlow and published by Booksales. This book was released on 1995 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: A concise introduction to the varied landscape of contemporary African music. Features leading artists and bands, musical styles, traditional/acoustic music, cross-cultural sounds as well as a selected discography and a glossary of musical terms.

African Music

Author : Francis Bebey
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 161374661X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book African Music written by Francis Bebey and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and enlightening, this guide explores African music's forms, musicians, instruments, and place in the life of the people. A discography classified by country, theme, group, and instrument is also included.