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Resiliency and distinction : beliefs, endurance and creativity in the musical arts of continental and diasporic Africa : a festschrift in honor of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje

Title
Resiliency and distinction : beliefs, endurance and creativity in the musical arts of continental and diasporic Africa : a festschrift in honor of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje / Kimasi L. Browne and Jean N. Kidula, editors.
Publication
  • Richmond, CA : Music Research Institute, MRI Press, 2013.
  • ©2013

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Additional Authors
  • Browne, Kimasi Lionel John.
  • Kidula, Jean Ngoya.
  • DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell.
Description
xiv, 484 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (black and white), music; 23 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages) and index.
Contents
Foreword / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- Preface / Akin Euba -- Introduction / Kimasi L. Browne and Jean N. Kidula -- Bowing the intellectual heartstring of continental and diasporic Africa: the enduring and distinctive scholarly work of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje / Kimasi L. Browne -- The minimalist impulse in African musical creativity / Kofi Agawu -- Pride and prejudice: how Charley Pride resolved the conflict of race, culture, and country music / Ray A. Briggs -- Unspeakable joy!: African American-style gospel choirs in the central conservatory of music in Beijing, China / Kimasi L. Browne -- Welcome to the United States of Africa: African nationalism and hip-hop perspectives on unity in the new Africa / Abimbola Cole -- Havana: sounds of worship, city of praise / Valerie Dickerson Cordero -- Folkloric performance as simulacrum: simulation and hyperreality in the interpretation of Afro-Cuban Iyesá music / Kevin M. Delgado -- Musical and institutional mediation of identities and spaces by the Ghana Methodist Church Choirs Association in North America / George Worlasi Kwasi Dor -- Drums, drumming, and the sacred sounds of silence in the Ga community of Accra, Ghana, West Africa / Clarence Bernard Henry -- "Old school worship": celebrating traditional music through re-enactment / Birgitta J. Johnson -- Of spirituals and songs of the spirit: exploring the "Transfer of function" in the musicking of African American and Kenyan Christians / Jean N. Kidula -- A glimpse into the past: documenting the 1996 Musical Instrument Collection of Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia / Cynthia Tse Kimberlin -- The Kiluka chordophones: their sonic and non-sonic cultural significance / James K. Makubuya -- Duke Ellington and world jazz composition / Eddie S. Meadows -- How artists create enduring traditions / Brian Schrag -- Testimonials -- Index.
Call Number
JMD 14-63
ISBN
  • 9781933459066
  • 1933459069
OCLC
863384768
Title
Resiliency and distinction : beliefs, endurance and creativity in the musical arts of continental and diasporic Africa : a festschrift in honor of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje / Kimasi L. Browne and Jean N. Kidula, editors.
Publisher
Richmond, CA : Music Research Institute, MRI Press, 2013.
Copyright Date
©2013
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages) and index.
Added Author
Browne, Kimasi Lionel John.
Kidula, Jean Ngoya.
DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell.
Research Call Number
JMD 14-63
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