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Author : J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book History and the Organisation of Music in West Africa written by J. H. Kwabena Nketia and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)
Download or read book History and the Organization of Music in West Africa written by J. H. Kwabena Nketia and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Collins
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780894100758
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Musicmakers of West Africa written by John Collins and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the development of West African popular music, this text begins with a discussion of the early Highlife bands. It then traces the growth and diversification of various popular musical styles, including comic opera, Dagomba Simpa folk, and the current Afro-beat and Juju.
Author : Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317794052
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
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 292 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.
Author : Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190467444
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The African Imagination in Music written by Kofi Agawu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values upon which it rests. Agawu leads his readers through an exploration of the traditions, structural elements, instruments, and performative techniques that characterize the music. In sections that focus upon rhythm, melody, form, and harmony, the essential parts of African music come into relief. While traditional music, the backbone of Africa's musical thinking, receives the most attention, Agawu also supplies insights into popular and art music in order to demonstrate the breadth of the African musical imagination. Close readings of a variety of songs, including an Ewe dirge, an Aka children's song, and Fela's 'Suffering and Smiling' supplement the broader discussion. The African Imagination in Music foregrounds a hitherto under-reported legacy of recordings and insists on the necessity of experiencing music as sound in order to appreciate and understand it fully. Accordingly, a Companion Website features important examples of the music discussed in detail in the book. Accessibly and engagingly written for a general audience, The African Imagination in Music is poised to renew interest in Black African music and to engender discussion of its creative underpinnings by Africanists, ethnomusicologists, music theorists and musicologists.
Author : Sonny Oti
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 978842208X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Highlife Music in West Africa written by Sonny Oti and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlife Music in West Africa is an excursion into the origins and development of an extraordinary music form. Highlife music is essentially an urban music, but unlike dance music performed using Western musical instruments, its dynamism is based less in the aesthetics of form and style than in song-texts. Critics treat highlife as a popular music genre, but this fails to acknowledge the role that the lyrics of highlife music played in the search for political, economic, and national growth and stability in Africa. Highlife musicians' messages, like drama and theater scripts, not only reflect Africa's culture but also highlight her social, economic, and political problems. The involvement of radicals and Pan-Africanists has helped elevate highlife musicians from the status of entertainers to a more serious and responsible one, as modern African town criers, whose song-texts are communal messages, warnings, and counseling.
Author : Edna Marilyn Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Music in West Africa written by Edna Marilyn Smith and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Caton Lingold
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813949793
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book African Musicians in the Atlantic World written by Mary Caton Lingold and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music, that fundamental form of human expression, is one of the most powerful cultural continuities fostered by enslaved Africans and their descendants throughout the Americas. The roots of so much of the music beloved around the world today are drawn directly from the men and women carried across the Atlantic in chains, from the west coast of Africa to the shores of the so-called New World. This important new book bridges African diaspora studies, music studies, and transatlantic and colonial American literature to trace the lineage of African and African diasporic musical life in the early modern period. Mary Caton Lingold meticulously analyzes surviving sources, especially European travelogues, to recover the lives of African performers, the sounds they created, and the meaning their musical creations held in Africa and later for enslaved communities in the Caribbean and throughout the plantation Americas. The book provides a rich history of early African sound and a revelatory analysis of the many ways that music shaped enslavement and colonization in the Americas.
Author : Klaus Wachsmann
Publisher : Evanston : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays on Music and History in Africa written by Klaus Wachsmann and published by Evanston : Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
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 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive presentation and analysis of the diverse musical traditions of Africa.
Author : J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ethnomusicology and African Music: Modes of inquiry and interpretation written by J. H. Kwabena Nketia and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume in hand deals with modes of inquiry and interpretation broadly organised into sections on theory, and historical and creative studies. The section on theoretical issues comprises papers on: the problem of meaning in African music; musicology and African music; the juncture of the social and the musical; integrating objectivity and experience in ethnomusicological studies; the aesthetic dimension in ethnomusicological studies; universal perspectives in ethnomusicology; and contextual strategies of inquiry and systematisation. The section on creative and historical topics covers the following: the history of music in African culture; history and the organization of music in West Africa; historical evidence in Ga religious music; processes of differentiation and interdependency in African music; African musical roots in the Americas; and developing contemporary idioms out of traditional music.
Author : John Collins
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439904979
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book West African Pop Roots written by John Collins and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nearest thing we have in the twentieth century to a global folk music.
Author : Denis Martin
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1920489827
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Sounding the Cape written by Denis Martin and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town have therefore been assigned an "identity" which is first and foremost social. This volume tries to question the relationship established between musical styles and genres, and social - in this case pseudo-racial - identities. In Sounding the Cape, Denis-Constant Martin recomposes and examines through the theoretical prism of creolisation the history of music in Cape Town, deploying analytical tools borrowed from the most recent studies of identity configurations. He demonstrates that musical creation in the Mother City, and in South Africa, has always been nurtured by contacts, exchanges and innovations whatever the efforts made by racist powers to separate and divide people according to their origin. Musicians interviewed at the dawn of the 21st century confirm that mixture and blending characterise all Cape Town's musics. They also emphasise the importance of a rhythmic pattern particular to Cape Town, the ghoema beat, whose origins are obviously mixed. The study of music demonstrates that the history of Cape Town, and of South Africa as a whole, undeniably fostered creole societies. Yet, twenty years after the collapse of apartheid, these societies are still divided along lines that combine economic factors and "racial" categorisations. Martin concludes that, were music given a greater importance in educational and cultural policies, it could contribute to fighting these divisions and promote the notion of a nation that, in spite of the violence of racism and apartheid, has managed to invent a unique common culture.
Author : Ronnie Graham
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The World of African Music written by Ronnie Graham and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Stern's "Guide to Contemporary African Music Volume I". Since then the World Music phenomenon of the last few years has created multiple new demands for African music - through recordings, live performances and for information and analysis. This new book digs deeper into the African musical past highlighting new areas of interest and bringing the story up to date. The World of African Music is a guide which gives the flavour and excitement of music from a continent with a richly diverse musical heritage. From Francophone West Africa through the Indian Ocean Islands to South Africa, Ronnie Graham introduces the reader to the roots, rhythms and mutations of African music.
Author : Alexander Akorlie Agordoh
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781594545542
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)
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.
Author : Thomas A. Hale
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253010217
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Women's Songs from West Africa written by Thomas A. Hale and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and beyond, the essays attest to the importance of women's contributions to the most widespread form of verbal art in Africa.
Author : Roberta Rose King
Publisher : Baylor University Press
ISBN 13 : 1602580227
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
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.
