Representing African Music
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Representing African Music
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Author : Kofi Agawu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-23
Representing African Music written by Kofi Agawu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-23 with Music categories.
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 African Imagination In Music
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Author : Kofi Agawu
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The African Imagination In Music written by Kofi Agawu 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 2016 with Music categories.
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.
Representing Black Music Culture
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Author : Bill Banfield
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2011-10-07
Representing Black Music Culture written by Bill Banfield and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-07 with Social Science categories.
In this collection of essays, interviews, and profiles, William Banfield reflects on his life as an musician and educator, weaving together pieces of cultural criticism that pay homage to artists who have created and sustained Black music for more than forty years.
African Rhythm
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Author : Victor Kofi Agawu
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1995
African Rhythm written by Victor Kofi Agawu and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Ewe (African people) categories.
. An accompanying compact disk enables the reader to work closely with the sound of African speech and song discussed in the book.
African Polyphony And Polyrhythm
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Author : Simha Arom
language : en
Publisher: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris
Release Date : 1991
African Polyphony And Polyrhythm written by Simha Arom and has been published by Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Counterpoint categories.
An original approach to the understanding of the complete and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm of African music.
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.
African Musics In Context
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Author : Solomon, Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Fountain Publishers
Release Date : 2015-12-12
African Musics In Context written by Solomon, Thomas and has been published by Fountain Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-12 with Music categories.
Ethnomusicology deals with the study of the music of the world. The field is interdisciplinary, and ethnomusicologists draw on theory and method from folklore, cultural anthropology, historical musicology, literature, cultural studies and media studies, among other disciplines. So when ethnomusicologists met at Makerere University's symposium on ethnomusicology in October 2011, the issues dealt with spanned a wide spectrum of concerns which can be grouped under three major categories: Institutions, culture and identity. African Musics in Context discusses the place of performing arts in Ugandan society, archiving music and music sources, performing archival music, performing health and religious issues in music, music and identity in East Africa as well music in motion, which tackles how identity shifts when people move from one place to another. All these are key aspects of our day-to-day lives, and they are the themes that colour the music we listen to. This book follows up on and extends work in an earlier volume (Nannyonga- Tamusuza and Solomon 2012) which included papers from the first symposium in the series. While this book focuses primarily on music and music research in Uganda, the chapters by the contributors from Tanzania, South Africa and Norway demonstrate the importance of scholarly and professional networks that connect the different countries of the African continent with each other and with the larger international scholarly community. If the published proceedings from the first symposium mentioned above represented a first in the history of ethnomusicological publishing in Uganda, this second book in the series shows that professionalised ethnomusicology in Uganda continues to gain ground and make contributions to music research in Uganda, Africa, and the global ethnomusicological community. The chapters collected here show that ethnomusicology in Uganda has a healthy institutional basis and promises to continue to make contributions that are relevant locally, regionally, and internationally.
Hip Hop Africa
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Author : Eric Charry
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-23
Hip Hop Africa written by Eric Charry and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with Music categories.
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.
A Contemporary Study Of Musical Arts Vol 1
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Author : Meki Nzewi
language : en
Publisher: African Minds
Release Date : 2007-12
A Contemporary Study Of Musical Arts Vol 1 written by Meki Nzewi and has been published by African Minds this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12 with Music categories.
Volume 1 - The Root: Foundation Modern literacy education in African music has hitherto focused more on observed context studies. The philosophical rooting and the psychological and therapeutic force that ground African indigenous musical arts have not been much discerned or integrated. Much needed in contemporary education, then, are integrative studies and literature materials that represent the intellectual base of the knowledge owners and creators, and which will ensure cognitive understanding of the indigenous musical arts systems of Africa. There is as yet no comprehensive, learner-centred book that fosters African indigenous knowledge perspectives and rationalisation about the musical arts. The concern over the years has been for the production of research-informed books for modern, systematic education in African musical arts that derive in essence from the original African intellectual perspectives about the sense and meaning of music - indigenous to contemporary. The five volumes of the musical arts study series derive from 36 years of research and analytical studies in African musical arts. The volumes address the pressing need for learning texts informed by the indigenous African musical arts systems that target tertiary education. The texts incorporate knowledge of conventional European classical music as they relate to the unique features of African musical arts thinking and theoretical content. The contemporary African musical arts specialist needs secure grounding in his/her own human-cultural knowledge authority in order to contribute with original intellectual integrity to African as well as global scholarship discourse and knowledge creation.
Playing With Identities In Contemporary Music In Africa
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Author : Annemette Kirkegaard
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 2002
Playing With Identities In Contemporary Music In Africa written by Annemette Kirkegaard 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 2002 with Music categories.
The musics of Africa play a particularly important role in expressing and forming identities. This book brings together African and Nordic scholars from both musicology and other disciplines in an attempt to analyse various aspects of the complex playing with volatile identities in music in Africa today. Taken together the papers put new light on the assumed or real dichotomies between countryside and city, collective and individual, tradition and modernity, authentic and alien. The papers are based on contributions for a conference organized by the research project “Cultural Images in and of Africa†of the Nordic Africa Institute together with the Sibelius Museum/Department of Musicology and the Centre for Continuing Education at Ã...bo Akademi University in Ã...bo (Turku), Finland in October 2000. The book includes a keynote speech by Christopher Waterman (UCLA), and an introduction by Annemette Kirkegaard, Copenhagen University. Southern, West and East Africa are represented in the studies, which cover a great variety of musics.