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Author | : J. H. Kwabena Nketia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
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The study of African music is a study at once of unity and diversity. The range of indigenous musical resources and practices found on this vast continent is as wide and varies as its topography. In this informative and highly readable book, Professor Nketia provides an overview of the musical traditions of Africa with respect to their historical, cultural, and social background, their organization and practice, and delineates the most significant aspects of musical style.
Author | : Mhoze Chikowero |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2015-11-24 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0253018099 |
Download African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.
Author | : Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher | : Iccs Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2017-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781624280603 |
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In 2013 Thomas Oden gathered together an international team of scholars to investigate thoroughly whether the Ethiopian Canticles are the earliest known form of sub-Saharan African music. The contributors to this volume include the finest inter-disciplinary scholars in the field. The Foreword was authored by Alessandro Bausi, widely regarded as the leading international Ethiopic scholar, who directs the world¿s largest program of advanced studies in Aethiopica at Hamburg University and Editor of the foremost international journal of Aethiopica.
Author | : Jan Knappert |
Publisher | : Red Sea Press(NJ) |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Download The A-Z of African Songs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas A. Hale |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0253010217 |
Download Women's Songs from West Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Alexander Akorlie Agordoh |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781594545542 |
Download African Music Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : James T. Campbell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 1995-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195360052 |
Download Songs of Zion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the book studies the complex human and intellectual traffic that has bound African American and South African experience. It explores the development and growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church both in South Africa and America, and the interaction between the two churches. This is a highly innovative work of comparative and religious history. Its linking of the United States and African black religious experiences is unique and makes it appealing to readers interested in religious history and black experience in both the United States and South Africa.
Author | : Fred Warren |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780136082248 |
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An introduction to African music discussing melody, rhythm and form, musical instruments, and music in traditional and contemporary African life. Includes a bibliography and discography.
Author | : Banning Eyre |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0822375427 |
Download Lion Songs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The trajectory of his career—from early performances of rock 'n' roll tunes to later creating a new genre based on traditional Zimbabwean music, including the sacred mbira, and African and Western pop—is a metaphor for Zimbabwe's evolution from colony to independent nation. Lion Songs is an authoritative biography of Mapfumo that narrates the life and career of this creative, complex, and iconic figure. Banning Eyre ties the arc of Mapfumo's career to the history of Zimbabwe. The genre Mapfumo created in the 1970s called chimurenga, or "struggle" music, challenged the Rhodesian government—which banned his music and jailed him—and became important to Zimbabwe achieving independence in 1980. In the 1980s and 1990s Mapfumo's international profile grew along with his opposition to Robert Mugabe's dictatorship. Mugabe had been a hero of the revolution, but Mapfumo’s criticism of his regime led authorities and loyalists to turn on the singer with threats and intimidation. Beginning in 2000, Mapfumo and key band and family members left Zimbabwe. Many of them, including Mapfumo, now reside in Eugene, Oregon. A labor of love, Lion Songs is the product of a twenty-five-year friendship and professional relationship between Eyre and Mapfumo that demonstrates Mapfumo's musical and political importance to his nation, its freedom struggle, and its culture.
Author | : Kimani Njogu |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Africa, Eastern |
ISBN | : 9987449425 |
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This volume brings together essays on songs and politics in the region of Eastern Africa and beyond. The theme that cuts across the contributions is that songs are, in addition to their aesthetic appeal, vital tools for exploring how political and social events are shaped and understood by citizens. Urbanization, commercialization and globalization contributed to the vibrancy of East African popular music of the 1990s. It was a product of social processes inseparable from society, politics, and other critical issues of the day. The lyrics explored socials cosmology, world views, class and gender relations, interpretations of value systems, and other political, social and cultural practices, even as they entertained and provided momentary escape for audience members. Frustration, disenchantments, and emotional fatigue resulting from corrupt and dictatorial political systems that stifle the potential of citizens drove and still drive popular music in Eastern Africa as in most of Africa.