Asante Ntahera Trumpets In Ghana

Author : Joseph S.Kaminski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : 44,8 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 : Joseph S. Kaminski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ashanti (African people)
ISBN : 054278744X

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Asante Ivory Trumpets in Ghana by Joseph S. Kaminski Pdf

This dissertation is based on fieldwork on the Asante ivory trumpets in the Republic of Ghana. The seven ivory trumpet ensembles of the Asantehene are the ntahera, the kwakwrannya, the mme&dotbelow;ntia, the nkontwema, the amoakwa , the nkrawobe&dotbelow;n, and the nkofe . The trumpets are made from elephant tusks. The dissertation places the Asante ivory trumpet tradition in historical and cultural contexts and examines ensemble structures and musical logistics. Most of the sources are derived from interviews, field recordings, transcriptions, and analyses. The data are corroborated with oral traditions and written, archaeological, and linguistic accounts. The diversity of the Asantehene's ivory trumpet ensembles serves as a political symbol and sustains Asante hegemony. When several ensembles play simultaneously to represent his power, they make staggered entrances beginning songs, and eventually result in a simultaneous performance of separate songs wherein a "sound-barrage" is created. Sound-barrage is based on an Akan aesthetic of "energy level and intensity factor," wherein gradations of intensity are achieved on the staggered energy levels. The culmination of sonic energy rises to its highest level, and each ensemble is an exponent in the factor. The energy has been believed to be a spiritual phenomenon that dispels pestilent spirits from the environs, so the people may commune with the ancestors. While this spiritually protective principle underlying the poly-ensemble aesthetic exists, the sound-barrage is the threshold between Asante secular and sacred experience. Medieval European illustrations of ivory trumpet-blowing angels have appeared numerously in manuscripts of The Apocalypse as commented upon by the 8th century Spanish monk Beatus de Liebana, whose work was influenced by an earlier manuscript by Tyconius of Carthage, which dates from c.380-385. The influence of the earlier Tyconius manuscript indicates ivory trumpet ensembles in Carthage as early as the 4 th century CE, played within the context of sound barrage, making Asante ivory trumpets a long standing tradition found elsewhere in the ancient world.

Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18T18:06:00+01:00
Category : History
ISBN : 9788867286911

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Africa. II/1, 2020 by AA. VV. Pdf

Articoli / Articles Jon Abbink, On “Good Governance”: Towards Reconciling State and Vernacular Views in Southwest Ethiopia Erika Grasso, Mapping a “Far Away” Town: Ethnic Boundaries and Everyday Life in Marsabit (Northern Kenya) Rosanna Tramutoli, A Sociolinguistic Description of Gíing’áwêakshòoda: A Register of Respect Among Barbaig Speakers in Tanzania Alice Bellagamba and Marco Gardini, What is a “Slave”? Neo-Abolitionism and the Shifting Meanings of Slavery in Two African Contexts (Highlands of Madagascar, Southern Senegal) Joanna Lewis, Dynasties and Decolonization: Chieftaincy, Politics and the Use of History at the Victoria Falls, from the Precolonial to the Post-independence Period Tom McCaskie, Alcohol and the Travails of Asantehene Osei Yaw Autori / Contributors

Author : John Parker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691214900

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In My Time of Dying by John Parker Pdf

An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuries In My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortuary cultures and the relationship between the living and the dead over a four-hundred-year period spanning the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Parker considers many questions from the African historical perspective, including why people die and where they go after death, how the dead are buried and mourned to ensure they continue to work for the benefit of the living, and how perceptions and experiences of death and the ends of life have changed over time. From exuberant funeral celebrations encountered by seventeenth-century observers to the brilliantly conceived designer coffins of the late twentieth century, Parker shows that the peoples of Ghana have developed one of the world’s most vibrant cultures of death. He explores the unfolding background of that culture through a diverse range of issues, such as the symbolic power of mortal remains and the dominion of hallowed ancestors, as well as the problem of bad deaths, vile bodies, and vengeful ghosts. Parker reconstructs a vast timeline of death and the dead, from the era of the slave trade to the coming of Christianity and colonial rule to the rise of the modern postcolonial nation. With an array of written and oral sources, In My Time of Dying richly adds to an understanding of how the dead continue to weigh on the shoulders of the living.

Author : Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190467449

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The African Imagination in Music by Kofi Agawu Pdf

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 : Damascus Kafumbe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580469043

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Tuning the Kingdom by Damascus Kafumbe Pdf

Examines how the Kawuugulu Clan-Royal Musical Ensemble uses musical performance and storytelling to manage, structure, model, and legitimize power relations among the Baganda people of south-central Uganda.

Author : Janet Sturman
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 5212 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781506353371

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The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture by Janet Sturman Pdf

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture presents key concepts in the study of music in its cultural context and provides an introduction to the discipline of ethnomusicology, its methods, concerns, and its contributions to knowledge and understanding of the world′s musical cultures, styles, and practices. The diverse voices of contributors to this encyclopedia confirm ethnomusicology′s fundamental ethos of inclusion and respect for diversity. Combined, the multiplicity of topics and approaches are presented in an easy-to-search A-Z format and offer a fresh perspective on the field and the subject of music in culture. Key features include: Approximately 730 signed articles, authored by prominent scholars, are arranged A-to-Z and published in a choice of print or electronic editions Pedagogical elements include Further Readings and Cross References to conclude each article and a Reader’s Guide in the front matter organizing entries by broad topical or thematic areas Back matter includes an annotated Resource Guide to further research (journals, books, and associations), an appendix listing notable archives, libraries, and museums, and a detailed Index The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and Cross References combine for thorough search-and-browse capabilities in the electronic edition

Author : Peter Sarpong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Ashanti (African people)
ISBN : UVA:X002405803

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The Ceremonial Horns of the Ashanti by Peter Sarpong Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Brass instruments
ISBN : UOM:39015057394663

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Historic Brass Society Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Herbert M. Cole,Doran H. Ross,University of California, Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN : MINN:319510010095937

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The Arts of Ghana by Herbert M. Cole,Doran H. Ross,University of California, Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History Pdf

Introduces the viewer to Ghanaian history, geography, religions, and culture through a study of the nation's traditional arts.

Author : Kwasi Ampene,Kwadwo Nyantakyi III (Asantehene Sanaahene)
Publisher : Maize Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123018371

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Brass instruments
ISBN : UOM:39015019888125

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Historic Brass Society Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Terry E. Miller,Andrew Shahriari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136241710

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World Music by Terry E. Miller,Andrew Shahriari Pdf

Authors Terry E. Miller and Andrew Shahriari take students around the world to experience the diversity of musical expression. World Music: A Global Journey, now in its third edition, is known for its breadth in surveying the world’s major cultures in a systematic study of world music within a strong pedagogical framework. As one prepares for any travel, each chapter starts with background preparation, reviewing the historical, cultural, and musical overview of the region. Visits to multiple ‘sites’ within a region provide in-depth studies of varied musical traditions. Music analysis begins with an experimental "first impression" of the music, followed by an "aural analysis" of the sound and prominent musical elements. Finally, students are invited to consider the cultural connections that give the music its meaning and life. Features of the Third Edition Over 3 hours of diverse musical examples. with a third audio CD of new musical examples Listening Guides analyze the various pieces of music with some presented in an interactive format online Biographical highlights of performers and ethnomusicologists updated and new ones added Numerous pedagogical aids, including "On Your Own Time" and "Explore More" sidebars, and "Questions to Consider" Popular music incorporated with the traditional Dynamic companion web site hosts new Interactive Listening Guides, plus many resources for student and instructor. Built to serve online courses. The CD set is available separately (ISBN 978-0-415-89402-9) or with its Value Pack and book (ISBN 978 0415- 80823-1). For eBook users, MP3 files for the accompanying audio files are available only with the Value Pack of eBook & MP3 files (ISBN 978-0-203-15298-0). Please find instructions on how to obtain the audio files in the contents section of the eBook.