On African Music

Author : Mhoze Chikowero
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253018090

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African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe by Mhoze Chikowero Pdf

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 : J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002647050

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The Music of Africa by J. H. Kwabena Nketia Pdf

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 : Alexander Akorlie Agordoh
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 1594545545

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African Music by Alexander Akorlie Agordoh Pdf

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 : Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317794066

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Representing African Music by Kofi Agawu Pdf

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.

Author : Kofi Agawu,Victor Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Francis Bebey
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781613746615

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African Music by Francis Bebey Pdf

Engaging and enlightening, this guide explores African music's forms, musicians, instruments, and place in the life of the people. A discography classified by country, theme, group, and instrument is also included.

Author : Joan Rankin,Wendy Hartmann
Publisher : Crocodile Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 156656025X

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The African Orchestra by Joan Rankin,Wendy Hartmann Pdf

With magical illustrations from Joan Rankin, and poetry from masterful storyteller, Wendy Hartmann, The African Orchestra lyrically captures the magic of the African sounds of nature. From the clicking of crickets to the crackle of the fire, follow the journey that celebrates these sounds, in the rhythm and music of Africa.

Author : Eric Charry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253005823

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Hip Hop Africa by Eric Charry Pdf

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.

Author : Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028494347

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Turn Up the Volume! by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje Pdf

This volume celebrates the rich and varied musical heritage of Africa. The essays are amply illustrated amd followed by full-colour illustrations of African musical instruments.

Author : Gerhard Kubik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226456911

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Theory of African Music, Volume I by Gerhard Kubik Pdf

Vol. 1 previously published in 1994 by F. Noetzel.

Author : John Gray
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-04-04
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:30000009121330

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African Music by John Gray Pdf

African Music is devoted to ethnographic, anthropological, musicological, and popular studies of sub-Saharan African music from the 1890s to the present. The bibliography is organized into six basic sections. Section one covers works on cultural policy and the performing arts in sub-Saharan Africa, while section two provides a selected guide to works on ethnomusicology. Section three, the largest, deals with general works and regional/country studies of traditional sub-Saharan musics, defined most simply as the local village or rural musics of West, Central, Southern, and East Africa. General and regional/country studies of African pop music as well as biographical and critical studies of 275 popular musicians and groups are covered in section four. Section five focuses on the acculturated or art music traditions of Africa's Westernized elite, citing both general works and biographical/critical studies on African composers and performers. The sixth, and final, music section covers general studies on African church, or liturgical music. The items cited in these six sections range from books, dissertations, unpublished papers, and periodical and newspaper articles, to films, videotapes, and audiotapes in all of the major Western languages as well as several African ones. The three appendixes deal, respectively, with reference works on African music and culture; archives and research centers; and a selected discography listing both traditional and popular music recordings and outlets where they may be found. Four indexes--ethnic group, subject, artist and author--complete the work and provide a key to its 5,800 entries. By covering works from 1732 to the present, African Music offers not only the most up-to-date scholarship on the subject, but also the most comprehensive coverage currently available. It offers a much-needed, and long overdue resource for students, scholars, and librarians seeking to understand the musics of sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Toyin Falola,Tyler Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136830280

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Music, Performance and African Identities by Toyin Falola,Tyler Fleming Pdf

Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa.

Author : Gerhard Kubik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226456928

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Theory of African Music by Gerhard Kubik Pdf

Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continent to compare and contrast a wealth of musical traditions from a range of cultures. In the first volume, Kubik describes and examines xylophone playing in southern Uganda and harp music from the Central African Republic; compares multi-part singing from across the continent; and explores movement and sound in eastern Angola. And in the second volume, he turns to the cognitive study of African rhythm, Yoruba chantefables, the musical Kachamba family of Malaŵi, and African conceptions of space and time. Each volume features an extensive number of photographs and is accompanied by a compact disc of Kubik’s own recordings. Erudite and exhaustive, Theory of African Music will be an invaluable reference for years to come.

Author : Meki Nzewi,Odyke Nzewi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drum music
ISBN : 1920355022

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African Classical Ensemble Music by Meki Nzewi,Odyke Nzewi Pdf

Author : Ruth M. Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015061375443

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Music in West Africa by Ruth M. Stone Pdf

This book introduces the musical traditions of West Africa and discusses the diversity, motifs, and structure of West African music within the larger patterns of the region's culture.