The Garland encyclopedia of world music. Volume 1, Africa /
Explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years - a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverage emphasizes the contexts of musical performance - unlike studies that offer static interpretations isolated from other performing traditions presents the fresh insights...
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New York :
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1998.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Introduction to African music. Profile of Africa ; African music in a constellation of arts / Ruth Stone
- The scholarly study of African music : a historical review / J.H. Kwabena Nketia
- The representative African music in early documents / John McCall
- pt. 2. Issues and processes in African music. Identities : music and other African arts / Barbara L. Hampton
- Time in African performance / Ruth M. Stone
- Notation and oral tradition / Kay Kaufman Shelemay
- Issue of timbre : the Inanga Chuchotée / Cornelia Fales
- Compositional practices in African music / Atta Annan Mensah
- Art-composed music in Africa / Johnston Akuma-Kalu Njoku
- Theory and technology in African music / Simha Arom and Frédéric Voisin
- Tumbuka healing / Steven Friedman
- Dance in communal life / Patience A. Kwakwa
- Intra-African streams of influence / Gerhard Kubik
- Islam in Liberia / Lester P. Monts
- The guitar in Africa / Andrew L. Kaye
- Kru mariners and migrants of the West African coast / Cynthia Schmidt
- Latin American musical influences in Zaïre / Kazadi wa Mukuna
- Rural-urban interchange : the Anlo-Ewe / Daniel Avorgbedor
- Foreign-indigenous interchange : the Yoruba / Christopher Brooks
- Popular music in Africa / Angela Impey
- pt. 3. Regional case studies. West Africa. West Africa : an introduction / Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
- Yoruba popular music / Christopher Waterman
- Praise singing in Northern Sierra Leone / Laura Arntson
- Hausa performance / Fremont E. Besmer
- North Africa. North Africa : an introduction / Caroline Card Wendt
- Music in Sudan / Artur Simon
- Tuareg music / Caroline Card Wendt
- East Africa. East Africa : an introduction / Peter Cooke
- Music and poetry in Somalia / John William Johnson
- Music in Kenya / Paul N. Kavyu
- Music in Tanzania / Stephen H. Martin
- Central Africa. Central Africa an introduction / Gerhard Kubik
- Musical life in the Central African Republic / Michelle Kisliuk
- Southern Africa. Southern Africa : an introduction / John E. Kaemmer
- Harmony in Luvale music of Zambia / Kenichi Tsukada
- Music of the Shona of Zimbabwe / John E. Kaemmer
- Popular music in South Africa / David B. Coplan
- Performance in Madagascar / Mireille Rakotomalala.
- Audio CD contents. Kpelle Woi-mene-pele epic excerpt (4:27)
- Ethiopian Lidet (Christmas) celebration (3:08)
- Inanga Chuchotee (whispered inanga) (4:12)
- Vai call to prayer (5:07)
- Palm-wine highlife song (2:56)
- Anlo-Ewe kinka drumming (2:16)
- Anlo-Ewe kinka songs (2:13)
- Maninka Mansareh praise song (balabolo) including "nyin min nyama, nyama" (5:44)
- Bala pattern of Maninka Mansareh bolo (0:51)
- Maninka Duwa praise sing
- Tuareg Tihadanaren (1:57)
- Tuareg takemba song "Khadisia" (1:32)
- Basoga lusoga song "Enhonyhi kolojo," "Thieving birds" (4:00)
- Baganda akadinda song "Gganga aluwa," "Gganga escaped with his life" (2:26)
- Somali caayar "dhaanto" excerpt 1 (2:45)
- Somali caayar "dhaanto" excerpt 2 (0:16)
- Popular song "Motike," "Orphans" (2:02)
- "Makala," a song performed during a BaAka (pygmy hunting dance called Mabo (2:30)
- BaAka of Dzanga perform a song during the eboka ya nzapa, "god dance" in the style of neighboring Bolamba pygmies (2:12)
- Shona Munyonga mbira song "Tongore" (2:25)
- Shona ancestral spirit song "Nyama musango" (2:25).
