Music Traditions Change And Creativity In Africa
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Music Traditions Change And Creativity In Africa
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Author : Giorgio Adamo
language : en
Publisher: NeoClassica
Release Date : 2019
Music Traditions Change And Creativity In Africa written by Giorgio Adamo and has been published by NeoClassica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Music categories.
In February 2014 an international seminar on musical dynamics and creativity in Africa was held at Tor Vergata University of Rome. The topic and the approach were strongly influenced by issues that Gerhard Kubik believed should have been addressed for a long time, such as the attention to cultural and social dynamics, with a specific emphasis on the creativity of individuals. Beside his keynote address, Music Traditions, Change and Creativity in Africa includes the contributions presented by scholars from different countries, particularly active in the East African area and in dialogue with Italian researchers who have field experience in the same region. Music Traditions, Change and Creativity in Africa is the first monograph of a series of volumes connected and inspired to the journal Etnografie Sonore / Sound Ethnographies (www.soundethnographies.it), which Giorgio Adamo and his colleagues recently founded. Along with the papers multimedia contents are also available online.
The Creative Potential Of African Art Music In Ghana
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Author : J. H. Kwabena Nketia
language : en
Publisher: Afram Publication
Release Date : 2004
The Creative Potential Of African Art Music In Ghana written by J. H. Kwabena Nketia and has been published by Afram Publication this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Music categories.
This booklet is intended as a companion volume to various recordings and aims to create awareness of the creative potential of African art music in Ghana. It is the story of an individual composer and his works, his reflections and comments on his experience as an African composer and on African art music as a contemporary genre and musical idiom. The book is divided into sections on: the creative sources of African art music: the transformation of traditional songs, popular music sources and original works; formative influences on the composer: early sources of influence, the legacy of Amu and the African School of Composition; and performers and audiences: the performer-composer relationship, performances of African art music abroad, local performers and music educators. The author is perhaps Africa's most distinguished and renowned composer, musicologist and scholar. His awards include the Ghana Book Award, the IMC-Unesco Music Prize for Distinguished Service to Music, and the Prince Claus Award for Distinguished Service to Culture and Development. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts & Sciences, Honorary Member of the International Music Council and Member of the International Jury for the Proclamation by Unesco of Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
African Music
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Author : Alexander Akorlie Agordoh
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2005
African Music written by Alexander Akorlie Agordoh and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Music categories.
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.
Music As Instrument Of Diversity And Unity
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Author : Minette Mans
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 2003
Music As Instrument Of Diversity And Unity written by Minette Mans and has been published by Nordic Africa Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Music categories.
This report explores the interface between recent socio-political changes in Namibia, and the way they are reflected in emergent musical practices and identities within the country. The potential tension between unity and diversity is investigated within musical landscapes in traditional and contemporary frames. Sadly, diversity is often seen to be the precursor of divisiveness rather than a product of human creativity and ingenuity. Based on a decade of field research undertaken mainly in the north and central areas of Namibia since 1993, this report poses questions about fundamental purposes of music-making, and the conscious response of people to the contemporary Namibian socio-political situation. It provides a broad overview of music emanating from different cultural practices in Namibia, and relates this to the State's political strategies for ensuring unity and nation-building through policy-making, education and broadcast media. The changes that occur in musical practices are seen as strategic cultural choices and ongoing identity-formation.
Yor B Music In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Bode Omojola
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2012
Yor B Music In The Twentieth Century written by Bode Omojola and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yorùbá genres of music. From the primeval age of Ayànàgalú (the Yorùbá pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yorùbá musical traditions have been shaped by individual performers: drummers, dancers, singers, and chanters, wself-mediated visions of their social and cultural environment. Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century explores the role of the performer and the performing group in creating these traditions, contributing to the ongoing reorientation of scholarship on African music toward individual creativity within a larger social network. Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional Yorùbá genres such as bàtá and dùndún drumming as well as more contemporary genres such as Yorùbá popular music. The book also addresses a spectrum of social issues, ranging from gender inequality to the impactianity and Islam on Yorùbá musical practice. Throughout, Omojola emphasizes the interrelatedness of the different components of the Yorùbá musical landscape, as well as the role of specific individuals and groups of musicians, whohave continued to draw from indigenous Yorùbá musical resources to create new musical forms in the process of engaging the social dynamics of a rapidly changing environment. Awarded honorable mention in the 2014 Kwabena Nketia Book Competition of the African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Bode Omojola is a Five College Associate Professor of Music at Mt. Holyoke College.
Making Music Making Society
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Author : Josep Martí
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-23
Making Music Making Society written by Josep Martí and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-23 with Social Science categories.
A society is the result of interacting individuals, and individuals are also the result of this interaction. This interaction happens through music, among other factors. As such, music constitutes a powerful resource for symbolic interaction, which constitutes the medium and substance of a culture. The importance of music in a society is clearly brought to light in the role that it plays in the three basic parameters of the social logics: identity, social order and the need for exchange. If music is so important to us, it is because, apart from its assigned aesthetic values, it fits closely with the dynamics of each of these three different parameters. These parameters, which are consubstantial to the social nature of the human being, constitute the core of the book as they manifest in musical practices. This publication addresses important issues such as the role of music in shaping identities, how music and social order are intertwined and why music is so relevant in human interaction. The last part of the book explores issues related to the social application of musical research. The volume brings together specialists from different academic disciplines with the same powerful starting point: music is not merely something related to the social, but rather a social life itself, something capable of structuring the social experience.
Musical Arts In Africa
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Author : Anri Herbst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Musical Arts In Africa written by Anri Herbst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Music categories.
Video and 2 CD's derive from a benefit concert of the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town, 16 April 2002, Baxter Concert Hall.
The Culture Of Aids In Africa
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Author : Gregory Barz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
The Culture Of Aids In Africa written by Gregory Barz and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Music categories.
The Culture of AIDS in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence of HIV/AIDS. Africans and non-Africans, physicians and social scientists, journalists and documentarians share here a common and essential interest in understanding creative expression in crushing and uncertain times. They investigate and engage the social networks, power relationships, and cultural structures that enable the arts to convey messages of hope and healing, and of knowledge and good counsel to the wider community. And from Africa to the wider world, they bring intimate, inspiring portraits of the performers, artists, communities, and organizations that have shared with them their insights and the sense they have made of their lives and actions from deep within this devastating epidemic. Covering the wide expanse of the African continent, the 30 chapters include explorations of, for example, the use of music to cope with AIDS; the relationship between music, HIV/AIDS, and social change; visual approaches to HIV literacy; radio and television as tools for "edutainment;" several individual artists' confrontations with HIV/AIDS; various performance groups' response to the epidemic; combating HIV/AIDS with local cultural performance; and more. Source material, such as song lyrics and interviews, weaves throughout the collection, and contributions by editors Gregory Barz and Judah M. Cohen bookend the whole, to bring together a vast array of perspectives and sources into a nuanced and profoundly affective portrayal of the intricate relationship between HIV/AIDS and the arts in Africa.
Ethnomusicology And African Music Modes Of Inquiry And Interpretation
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Author : J. H. Kwabena Nketia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Ethnomusicology And African Music Modes Of Inquiry And Interpretation written by J. H. Kwabena Nketia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Music categories.
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.
African Music
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Author : Meki Nzewi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
African Music written by Meki Nzewi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Ethnomusicology categories.