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Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana

Author : Joseph S.Kaminski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351956876
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana written by Joseph S.Kaminski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral traditions, written accounts, archaeological evidence, transcriptions and linguistic analyses to situate the Asante trumpet tradition in historical culture. There are seven ivory trumpet ensembles in residence at the Asante Manhyia Palace in Kumase, and ivory trumpets are blown at every Akan court. The Asante trumpets, which are made from elephant tusks, are symbols of Asante strength and have an important role in Asante cosmology. Surrogate speech is performed via lipped tones through a tusk in praise of the Asante royal ancestors and the living Asante king. This book contains transcriptions and analyses of surrogate speech texts and their accompanying ensemble songs. When several ensembles play simultaneously as a representation of power, they make staggered entrances, beginning separate songs in order. This results in a simultaneous performance of separate songs. This phenomenon, which Kaminski has termed 'sound-barrage', is an ancient aesthetic, and is performed to protect the kingdom and the ancestors. It is both spiritual and acoustical. This 'sound barrage' is believed to act in the metaphysical world, dispelling evil spirits from court rituals, ancestor venerations, and funerals, for there is a spirit in the sound.

Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana

Author : Kwasi Ampene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000060322
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana written by Kwasi Ampene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana is a comprehensive portrait of Asante court musical arts. Weaving together historical narratives with analyses of texts performed on drums, ivory trumpets, and a cane flute, the book includes a critical assembly of ancient song texts, the poetry of bards (kwadwom), and referential poetry performed by members of the constabulary (apae). The focus is on the intersections between lived experience, music, and values, and refers to musical examples drawn from court ceremonies, rituals, festivals, as well as casual performances elicited in the course of fieldwork. For the Asante, the performing arts are complex sites for recording and storing personal experiences, and they have done so for centuries with remarkable consistency and self-consciousness. This book draws on archaeological, archival, historical, ethnographical and analytical sources to craft a view of the Asante experience as manifested in its musical and allied arts. Its goal is to privilege the voices of the Asante and how they express their history, religious philosophy, social values, economic, and political experiences through the musical and allied arts. The author’s theoretical formulation includes the concept of value, referring to ideas, worldview concepts, beliefs, and social relationships that inform musical practices and choices in Asante.

Bouncing Back

Author : Tamara Enomoto
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956553263
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Bouncing Back written by Tamara Enomoto and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2018 South Africa's so-called "mother city", Cape Town came into the global spotlight as being the first city in the world to (almost) "run out of water," a crisis that only exacerbated the pressures placed upon a population staggering under socio-economic and politically-tinged environmental predicaments. Japan on the other hand has long sustained an international reputation for the massive scale of natural and anthropocentric crises its people have faced, overcome, and succumbed to. The most recent (pre-Pandemic) occurrence of which being the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima Daiima nuclear plant accident. What comes to mind when Japan, South Africa, and the notion of resilience are mentioned in the same utterance? Well, considering how societies respond to disaster, (man-made and natural), Japan and South Africa feature high on many lists both for our triumphs and our failures to account for the most vulnerable among us in moments of catastrophe. This edited volume draws on transdisciplinary perspectives and multi-sited research to reflect on the high stakes involved when people are expected to repeatedly survive crisis. The authors take "resilience" as a contested yet generative lens through which to examine some of the most salient questions of our time. Culled from two seemingly disparate geopolitical locales, the insights offered here are hauntingly connected, shedding light on questions of collective and individual responses to calamity - questions that, in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic, are now urgently being grappled with by everyone, everywhere.

Dissertation Abstracts International

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Asante Ivory Trumpets in Ghana

Author : Joseph S. Kaminski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780542787447
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Asante Ivory Trumpets in Ghana written by Joseph S. Kaminski and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is based on fieldwork on the Asante ivory trumpets in the Republic of Ghana. The seven ivory trumpet ensembles of the Asantehene are the ntahera, the kwakwrannya, the mme&dotbelow;ntia, the nkontwema, the amoakwa , the nkrawobe&dotbelow;n, and the nkofe . The trumpets are made from elephant tusks. The dissertation places the Asante ivory trumpet tradition in historical and cultural contexts and examines ensemble structures and musical logistics. Most of the sources are derived from interviews, field recordings, transcriptions, and analyses. The data are corroborated with oral traditions and written, archaeological, and linguistic accounts. The diversity of the Asantehene's ivory trumpet ensembles serves as a political symbol and sustains Asante hegemony. When several ensembles play simultaneously to represent his power, they make staggered entrances beginning songs, and eventually result in a simultaneous performance of separate songs wherein a "sound-barrage" is created. Sound-barrage is based on an Akan aesthetic of "energy level and intensity factor," wherein gradations of intensity are achieved on the staggered energy levels. The culmination of sonic energy rises to its highest level, and each ensemble is an exponent in the factor. The energy has been believed to be a spiritual phenomenon that dispels pestilent spirits from the environs, so the people may commune with the ancestors. While this spiritually protective principle underlying the poly-ensemble aesthetic exists, the sound-barrage is the threshold between Asante secular and sacred experience. Medieval European illustrations of ivory trumpet-blowing angels have appeared numerously in manuscripts of The Apocalypse as commented upon by the 8th century Spanish monk Beatus de Liebana, whose work was influenced by an earlier manuscript by Tyconius of Carthage, which dates from c.380-385. The influence of the earlier Tyconius manuscript indicates ivory trumpet ensembles in Carthage as early as the 4 th century CE, played within the context of sound barrage, making Asante ivory trumpets a long standing tradition found elsewhere in the ancient world.

That's the Joint!

Author : Murray Forman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415969192
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book That's the Joint! written by Murray Forman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.

Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee

Author : Thomas Edward Bowdich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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African Roots, Brazilian Rites

Author : C. Sterling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137010002
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book African Roots, Brazilian Rites written by C. Sterling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomblé and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, and hip hop.

Engaging Modernity

Author : Kwasi Ampene
Publisher : Maize Books
ISBN 13 : 9781607853664
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Engaging Modernity written by Kwasi Ampene and published by Maize Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging Modernity is the definitive history of Asante royal regalia and music ensembles. This second edition includes an ethnographical account of the 2014 Asanteman Grand Adae festival that prominently features the complex heritage of the visual and the performing arts in motion. Ampene's contextual account illuminates the historical narratives the regalia objects render as they move through space and time, as well as the metalanguage embodied in the objects and the symbolic language they convey in Akanland. The book combines text with over three hundred color photographs to construct subtle and nuanced views of the material culture associated with Asante royal court in the twenty-first century. Engaging Modernity is an essential and a vast transdisciplinary resource for the humanities and beyond.

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.

Situating Globality

Author : Wim M. J. van Binsbergen
Publisher : African Dynamics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Situating Globality written by Wim M. J. van Binsbergen and published by African Dynamics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume should be of great value to all readers interested in the study of cultural globalization from the perspectives of anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, political science and international relations."--Jacket.

Historical Dictionary of Nigeria

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810863162
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Nigeria written by Toyin Falola and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since independence in 1960, Nigeria has undergone tremendous change shaped by political instability, rapid population growth, and economic turbulence. The Historical Dictionary of Nigeria introduces Nigeria's rich and complex history. Readers will find a wealth of information on important contemporary issues like AIDS, human rights, petroleum, and faith-based conflict.

Political Communication in Africa

Author : Ayo Olukotun
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319486314
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Political Communication in Africa written by Ayo Olukotun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of the nature and development of political communication in Africa. In light of the growing number of African states now turning towards democratic rule, as well as the growing utilization of information technologies in Africa, the contributors examine topics such as: the role of social media in politics, strategic political communication, political philosophy and political communication, Habermas in Africa, gender and political communication, image dilemma in Africa, and issues in political communication research in Africa, and identify the frontiers for future research on political communication in Africa.

A History of Theatre in Africa

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139451499
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book A History of Theatre in Africa written by Martin Banham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.

Noise Uprising

Author : Michael Denning
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781688583
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Noise Uprising written by Michael Denning and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern times unfolded in a series of obscure recording sessions, as hundreds of unknown musicians entered makeshift studios to record the melodies and rhythms of urban streets and dancehalls. The musical styles and idioms etched onto shellac disks reverberated around the globe: among them Havana’s son, Rio’s samba, New Orleans’ jazz, Buenos Aires’ tango, Seville’s flamenco, Cairo’s tarab, Johannesburg’s marabi, Jakarta’s kroncong, and Honolulu’s hula. They triggered the first great battle over popular music and became the soundtrack to decolonization.

The Battle of Adwa

Author : Paulos Milkias
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875864139
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Adwa written by Paulos Milkias and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia trounced the Italians in 1896 in the greatest African victory over Europe since Hannibal, but failed to prevent the loss of Eritrea. The event was a powerful constitutive force in the rise of modern Africa and pan-Africanism and resounds in the shared memory of Africans and Black Americans even today.

Twelve Years a Slave

Author : Solomon Northup
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726609053
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Twelve Years a Slave written by Solomon Northup and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmatized in 2013 and the official recipient of three Oscars, Solomon Northup's powerful slave narrative 'Twelve Years a Slave' depicts Nortup's life as he is sold into slavery after having spent 32 years of his life living as a free man in New York. Working as a travelling musician, Northup goes to Washington D.C, where he is kidnapped, sent to New Orleans, and sold to a planter to suffer the relentless and brutal life of a slave. After a dozen years, Northup escapes to return to his family and pulls no punches, as he describes his fate and that of so many other black people at the time. It is a harrowing but vitally important book, even today. For further reading on this subject, try 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Solomon Northup (c.1807-c.1875) was an American abolitionist and writer, best remembered for his powerful race memoir 'Twelve Years a Slave'. At the age of 32, when he was a married farmer, father-of-three, violinist and free-born man, he was kidnapped in Washington D.C and shipped to New Orleans, sold to a planter and enslaved for a dozen years. When he gained his freedom, he wrote his famous memoir and spent some years lecturing across the US,on behalf of the abolitionist movement. 'Twelve Years a Slave' was published a year after 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe and built on the anti-slavery momentum it had developed. Northup's final years are something of a mystery, though it is thought that he struggled to cope with family life after being freed.