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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 | : 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 | : Mhoze Chikowero |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2015-11-24 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0253018099 |
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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 | : Banning Eyre |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0822375427 |
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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 | : Angela Impey |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-11-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 022653815X |
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Song Walking explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey investigates contrasting accounts of this little-known geopolitical triangle, offsetting textual histories with the memories of a group of elderly women whose songs and everyday practices narrativize a century of borderland dynamics. Drawing evidence from women’s walking songs (amaculo manihamba)—once performed while traversing vast distances to the accompaniment of the European mouth-harp (isitweletwele)—she uncovers the manifold impacts of internationally-driven transboundary environmental conservation on land, livelihoods, and local senses of place. This book links ethnomusicological research to larger themes of international development, environmental conservation, gender, and local economic access to resources. By demonstrating that development processes are essentially cultural processes and revealing how music fits within this frame, Song Walking testifies to the affective, spatial, and economic dimensions of place, while contributing to a more inclusive and culturally apposite alignment between land and environmental policies and local needs and practices.
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 | : Victor Kofi Agawu |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190263202 |
Download The African Imagination in Music Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Aissata G. Sidikou |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-02-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0253356709 |
Download Women's Voices from West Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale reveal the world of women's songs and singing in West Africa. This anthology—collected from 17 ethnic traditions across West Africa—introduces the power and beauty of the intimate expressions of African women. The songs, many translated here for the first time, reflect all stages of the life cycle and all walks of life. They entertain, give comfort and encouragement, and empower other women to face the challenges imposed on them by their families, men, and society. Women's Voices from West Africa opens a new window on women's changing roles in contemporary Africa.
Author | : Ted Gioia |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199357579 |
Download Love Songs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Uncovers the unexplored history of the love song, from the fertility rites of ancient cultures to the sexualized YouTube videos of the present day, and discusses such topics as censorship, the legacy of love songs, and why it is a dominant form of modern musical expression.
Author | : Jan Knappert |
Publisher | : Red Sea Press(NJ) |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
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