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Author : Roderic Copley Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mandinka Jaliya written by Roderic Copley Knight and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynne Jessup
Publisher : Art Path Press
ISBN 13 : 091642104X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Mandinka Balafon written by Lynne Jessup and published by Art Path Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mandinka Balafon offers in depth research on the history, construction, and use of the West African balafon. Lynne Jessup provides a variety of accounts of the origin of the bala, including interviews with the jeli griots of The Gambia. Seventeen transcribed balafon songs are notated with modified box notation and two accompanying CDs, with the history and use of each song. Detailed information is given on the construction and tuning of the Mandinka balafon, with supportive photos and drawings.
Author : Donald R. Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Oral Traditions from the Gambia: Mandinka griots written by Donald R. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paulla A. Ebron
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825210
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Performing Africa written by Paulla A. Ebron and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried to pin him down. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation--the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction. Africa often enters the global imagination through news accounts of ethnic war, famine, and despotic political regimes. Those interested in countering such dystopic images--be they cultural nationalists in the African diaspora or connoisseurs of "global culture"--often found their representations of an emancipatory Africa on an enthusiasm for West African popular culture and performance arts. Based on extensive field research in The Gambia and focusing on the figure of the jali, Performing Africa interrogates these representations together with their cultural and political implications. It explores how Africa is produced, circulated, and consumed through performance and how encounters through performance create the place of Africa in the world. Innovative and discerning, Performing Africa is a provocative contribution to debates over cultural nationalism and the construction of identity and history in Africa and elsewhere.
Author : Thomas Albert Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253334589
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Griots and Griottes written by Thomas Albert Hale and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive illustrated portrait of griots and griottes including extensive reference materials.
Author : Roderic C. Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Mandinka Jaliya written by Roderic C. Knight and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Tang
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592134203
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Masters of the Sabar written by Patricia Tang and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters of the Sabar is the first book to examine the music and culture of Wolof griot percussionists, masters of the vibrant sabar drumming tradition. Based on extensive field research in Senegal, this book is a biographical study of several generations of percussionists in a Wolof griot (géwël) family, exploring and documenting their learning processes, repertories, and performance contexts—from life-cycle ceremonies to sporting events and political meetings. Patricia Tang examines the rich history and changing repertories of sabar drumming, including dance rhythms and bàkks, musical phrases derived from spoken words. She notes the recent shift towards creating new bàkks which are rhythmically more complex and highlight the virtuosity and musical skill of the percussionist. She also considers the burgeoning popular music genre called mbalax. The compact disc that accompanies the book includes examples of the standard sabar repertory, as well as bàkks composed and performed by Lamine Touré and his family drum troupe.
Author : Ellen Lewin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140515456X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Feminist Anthropology written by Ellen Lewin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Anthropology surveys the history of feministanthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinatingcollection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped tohighlight key themes from the past and present. Offers vibrant examples of feminist ethnographic work ratherthan synthetic overviews of the field. Each section is framed by a theoretical and bibliographicessay. Includes a thoughtful introduction to the volume that providescontext and discusses the intellectual “foremothers” ofthe field, including Margaret Mead, Ruth Landes, Phyllis Kaberry,and Zora Neale Hurston.
Author : B. W. Andrzejewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521256461
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Literatures in African Languages written by B. W. Andrzejewski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-11-21 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although African literatures in English and French are widely known outside Africa, those in the African languages themselves have not received comparable attention. In this book a number have been selected for survey by fourteen specialist writers, providing the reader with an introduction to this very wide field and a body of reference material which includes extensive bibliographies and biographical information on African authors. Theoretical issues such as genre divisions are discussed in the essays and the historical, social and political forces at work in the creation and reception of African literature are examined. Literature is treated as an art whose medium is language, so that both the oral and written forms are encompassed. This book will be of value not only to readers concerned with the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in the literary phenomena of the world in general.
Author : Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134407866
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book African Theatres and Performances written by Osita Okagbue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Theatres & Performances looks at four specific performance forms in Africa and uses this to question the tendency to employ western frames of reference to analyze and appreciate theatrical performance. The book examines: masquerade theatre in Eastern Nigeria the trance and possession ritual theatre of the Hausa of Northern Nigeria the musical and oral tradition of the Mandinka of Senegal comedy and satire of the Bamana in Mali. Osita Okagbue describes each performance in detail and discusses how each is made, who it is made by and for, and considers the relationship between maker and viewer and the social functions of performance and theatre in African societies. The discussions are based on first-hand observation and interviews with performers and spectators. African Theatres & Performances gives a fascinating account of these practices, carefully tracing the ways in which performances and theatres are unique and expressive of their cultural context.
Author : Michael Church
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843837269
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Other Classical Musics written by Michael Church and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Classical Musics will help both students and general readers to appreciate musical traditions mostly unfamiliar to them.
Author : Eric Charry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226101620
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Mande Music written by Eric Charry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Mande Music, Eric Charry offers the most comprehensive source available on one of Africa's richest and most sophisticated music cultures. Using resources as disparate as early Arabic travel accounts, oral histories, and archival research as well as his own extensive studies in Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and the Gambia, Charry traces this music culture from its origins in the thirteenth-century Mali empire to the recording studios of Paris and New York. He focuses on the four major spheres of Mande music—hunter's music, music of the jelis or griots, jembe and other drumming, and guitar-based modern music—exploring how each evolved, the types of instruments used, the major artists, and how each sphere relates to the others. With its maps, illustrations, and musical transcriptions as well as an exhaustive bibliography, discography, and videography, this book is essential reading for those seeking an in-depth look at one of the most exciting, innovative, and deep-rooted phenomena on the world music scene. A compact disc is available separately.
Author : Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521224000
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Music and Tradition written by Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to reflect characteristic aspects of Dr Picken's study of Oriental and other non-Western musics. Appealing in particular to those engaged in the study of non-Western music, the volume will also interest everyone concerned with musical structures and their development.
Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Florence to Gligo written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ingrid Monson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317777255
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The African Diaspora written by Ingrid Monson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. Featured here are jazz, wassoulou music, and popular and traditional musics of the Caribbean and Africa, framed with attention to the reciprocal relationships of the local and the global.
Author : Bonnie B. McConnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000712060
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Music, Health, and Power written by Bonnie B. McConnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music, Health, and Power offers an original, on-the-ground analysis of the role that music plays in promoting healthy communities. The book brings the reader inside the world of kanyeleng fertility societies and HIV/AIDS support groups, where women use music to leverage stigma and marginality into new forms of power. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over a period of 13 years (2006–2019), the author articulates a strengths-based framework for research on music and health that pushes beyond deficit narratives to emphasize the creativity and resilience of Gambian performers in responding to health disparities. Examples from Ebola prevention programs, the former President’s AIDS “cure,” and a legendary underwear theft demonstrate the high stakes of women’s performances as they are caught up in broader contestations over political and medical authority. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of ethnomusicology, medical anthropology, and African studies. The accompanying audio examples provide access to the women’s performances discussed in the text.
Author : Ron Emoff
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819565006
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Recollecting from the Past written by Ron Emoff and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies interconnections between sound production, spirit possession, colonialism and ceremonial remembering in Madagascar. The first serious ethnomusicological study of Malagasy music, Recollecting from the Past evokes the complex sound and performative aesthetic in Madagascar called maresaka. Maresaka pertains not only to musical expression but extends into ways of remembering the past, aesthetics of everyday life, and Malagasy concepts of self and community. Ron Emoff focuses on tromba spirit possession ceremonies in which Malagasy use devotional practice as an occasion to expressively re-figure worlds often impeded by colonialism and postcolonial phenomena, extreme material poverty, and widespread illness. Malagasy not only preserve the past, but they interpret, revalue and transform it to their own ends. Music is crucial to these performances since powerful ancestral spirits will not enter into the present if not enticed by masterful musical performances, and so music itself provides a complex symbolic system with which Malagasy can recall and reconstruct the past. This groundbreaking study will be of interest to readers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, African studies, postcolonial and performance studies.
