Asante Ivory Trumpet Music In Ghana Culture Tradition And Sound Barrage

Author : Joseph S.Kaminski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351956871

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Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana by Joseph S.Kaminski Pdf

Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral traditions, written accounts, archaeological evidence, transcriptions and linguistic analyses to situate the Asante trumpet tradition in historical culture. There are seven ivory trumpet ensembles in residence at the Asante Manhyia Palace in Kumase, and ivory trumpets are blown at every Akan court. The Asante trumpets, which are made from elephant tusks, are symbols of Asante strength and have an important role in Asante cosmology. Surrogate speech is performed via lipped tones through a tusk in praise of the Asante royal ancestors and the living Asante king. This book contains transcriptions and analyses of surrogate speech texts and their accompanying ensemble songs. When several ensembles play simultaneously as a representation of power, they make staggered entrances, beginning separate songs in order. This results in a simultaneous performance of separate songs. This phenomenon, which Kaminski has termed 'sound-barrage', is an ancient aesthetic, and is performed to protect the kingdom and the ancestors. It is both spiritual and acoustical. This 'sound barrage' is believed to act in the metaphysical world, dispelling evil spirits from court rituals, ancestor venerations, and funerals, for there is a spirit in the sound.

Author : Kwasi Ampene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000060324

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Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana by Kwasi Ampene Pdf

Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana is a comprehensive portrait of Asante court musical arts. Weaving together historical narratives with analyses of texts performed on drums, ivory trumpets, and a cane flute, the book includes a critical assembly of ancient song texts, the poetry of bards (kwadwom), and referential poetry performed by members of the constabulary (apae). The focus is on the intersections between lived experience, music, and values, and refers to musical examples drawn from court ceremonies, rituals, festivals, as well as casual performances elicited in the course of fieldwork. For the Asante, the performing arts are complex sites for recording and storing personal experiences, and they have done so for centuries with remarkable consistency and self-consciousness. This book draws on archaeological, archival, historical, ethnographical and analytical sources to craft a view of the Asante experience as manifested in its musical and allied arts. Its goal is to privilege the voices of the Asante and how they express their history, religious philosophy, social values, economic, and political experiences through the musical and allied arts. The author’s theoretical formulation includes the concept of value, referring to ideas, worldview concepts, beliefs, and social relationships that inform musical practices and choices in Asante.

Author : Tamara Enomoto,Kiyoshi Umeya
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956553266

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Bouncing Back by Tamara Enomoto,Kiyoshi Umeya Pdf

In 2018 South Africa's so-called "mother city", Cape Town came into the global spotlight as being the first city in the world to (almost) "run out of water," a crisis that only exacerbated the pressures placed upon a population staggering under socio-economic and politically-tinged environmental predicaments. Japan on the other hand has long sustained an international reputation for the massive scale of natural and anthropocentric crises its people have faced, overcome, and succumbed to. The most recent (pre-Pandemic) occurrence of which being the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima Daiima nuclear plant accident. What comes to mind when Japan, South Africa, and the notion of resilience are mentioned in the same utterance? Well, considering how societies respond to disaster, (man-made and natural), Japan and South Africa feature high on many lists both for our triumphs and our failures to account for the most vulnerable among us in moments of catastrophe. This edited volume draws on transdisciplinary perspectives and multi-sited research to reflect on the high stakes involved when people are expected to repeatedly survive crisis. The authors take "resilience" as a contested yet generative lens through which to examine some of the most salient questions of our time. Culled from two seemingly disparate geopolitical locales, the insights offered here are hauntingly connected, shedding light on questions of collective and individual responses to calamity - questions that, in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic, are now urgently being grappled with by everyone, everywhere.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123018371

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Murray Forman,Mark Anthony Neal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Hip-hop
ISBN : 0415969190

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That's the Joint! by Murray Forman,Mark Anthony Neal Pdf

Spanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.

Author : Norman Coombs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627936866

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The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs Pdf

In three parts, Norman Coomb's addresses the history of the African Americans beginning with the slave trade to the fight for freedom and lastly to the search for equality.

Author : Thomas Edward Bowdich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : NLS:V000548691

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Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee by Thomas Edward Bowdich Pdf

Author : C. Sterling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137010001

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African Roots, Brazilian Rites by C. Sterling Pdf

This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomblé and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, and hip hop.

Author : Kwasi Ampene,Kwadwo Nyantakyi III (Asantehene Sanaahene)
Publisher : Maize Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Ashanti (African people)
ISBN : 1607853663

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Engaging Modernity by Kwasi Ampene,Kwadwo Nyantakyi III (Asantehene Sanaahene) Pdf

Engaging Modernity is the definitive history of Asante royal regalia and music ensembles. This second edition includes an ethnographical account of the 2014 Asanteman Grand Adae festival that prominently features the complex heritage of the visual and the performing arts in motion. Ampene's contextual account illuminates the historical narratives the regalia objects render as they move through space and time, as well as the metalanguage embodied in the objects and the symbolic language they convey in Akanland. The book combines text with over three hundred color photographs to construct subtle and nuanced views of the material culture associated with Asante royal court in the twenty-first century. Engaging Modernity is an essential and a vast transdisciplinary resource for the humanities and beyond.

Author : Kofi Agawu,Victor Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190263201

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The African Imagination in Music by Kofi Agawu,Victor Kofi Agawu Pdf

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.

Author : Wim M. J. van Binsbergen,Rijk van Dijk
Publisher : African Dynamics
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058249338

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Situating Globality by Wim M. J. van Binsbergen,Rijk van Dijk Pdf

This volume should be of great value to all readers interested in the study of cultural globalization from the perspectives of anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, political science and international relations."--Jacket.

Author : Ayo Olukotun,Sharon Adetutu Omotoso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319486314

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Political Communication in Africa by Ayo Olukotun,Sharon Adetutu Omotoso Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive account of the nature and development of political communication in Africa. In light of the growing number of African states now turning towards democratic rule, as well as the growing utilization of information technologies in Africa, the contributors examine topics such as: the role of social media in politics, strategic political communication, political philosophy and political communication, Habermas in Africa, gender and political communication, image dilemma in Africa, and issues in political communication research in Africa, and identify the frontiers for future research on political communication in Africa.

Author : Toyin Falola,Ann Genova
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810863163

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Historical Dictionary of Nigeria by Toyin Falola,Ann Genova Pdf

Since independence in 1960, Nigeria has undergone tremendous change shaped by political instability, rapid population growth, and economic turbulence. The Historical Dictionary of Nigeria introduces Nigeria's rich and complex history. Readers will find a wealth of information on important contemporary issues like AIDS, human rights, petroleum, and faith-based conflict.

Author : Michael Denning
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781781688588

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Noise Uprising by Michael Denning Pdf

A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern times unfolded in a series of obscure recording sessions, as hundreds of unknown musicians entered makeshift studios to record the melodies and rhythms of urban streets and dancehalls. The musical styles and idioms etched onto shellac disks reverberated around the globe: among them Havana’s son, Rio’s samba, New Orleans’ jazz, Buenos Aires’ tango, Seville’s flamenco, Cairo’s tarab, Johannesburg’s marabi, Jakarta’s kroncong, and Honolulu’s hula. They triggered the first great battle over popular music and became the soundtrack to decolonization.

Author : Paulos Milkias,Getachew Metaferia
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875864136

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The Battle of Adwa by Paulos Milkias,Getachew Metaferia Pdf

Ethiopia trounced the Italians in 1896 in the greatest African victory over Europe since Hannibal, but failed to prevent the loss of Eritrea. The event was a powerful constitutive force in the rise of modern Africa and pan-Africanism and resounds in the shared memory of Africans and Black Americans even today.