Research Catalog

Title

Discourses in African musicology : J.H. Kwabena Nketia festschrift / edited by Kwasi Ampene with Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Godwin K. Adjei, Albert K. Awedoba.

Publication

• [Ann Arbor, Michigan] : African Studies Center, University of Michigan : Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Michigan ; Legon ; Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Nketia, J. H. Kwabena
• Ampene, Kwasi, 1965-
• Adomako Ampofo, Akosua
• Adjei, Godwin K.
• Awedoba, A. K.

Description

603 pages : illustrations, music; 23 cm

Alternative Title

J.H. Kwabena Nketia Festschrift

Subjects

• Music
• Ethnomusicology
• Music > Africa
• Ethnomusicology > Africa
• Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / Lester Monts -- Acknowledgements / Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Kwasi Ampene, Godwin K. Adjei, Albert K. Awedoba -- Introduction / Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Kwasi Ampene, Godwin K. Adjei, Albert K. Awedoba -- Section 1. Expressing language, expressing music. Language and music : mind, body, meaning / M.E. Kropp Dakubu ; Nketia's influence in Ntahera hocket and surrogate speech analyses / Joseph Kaminski ; The textual basis of African drumming : the interaction between spoken language and drumming / Modesto Amegago -- Section 2. Analysis of traditional music. Sweetness in Agbadze music : expressiveness in an item of Agbadze singing and drumming / David Locke ; A theory of infinite variation / Brenda Romero ; Kete for the international percussion community / Ben Paulding ; Spontaneity, improvisation, and musical and social aesthetics in Ghanaian Kpanlogo music and dance / Amy Unruh -- Section 3. Singing history. Kasena maiden songs : a genre on the wane / Albert K. Awedoba and Alexis L. Danti ; Documentation of slavery in Ghanaian folklore : Anlo Ewe slave songs / Mawuli Adjei -- Diasporic dialogues and currents / Music and diasporas within West Africa : the pre-colonial era / Jacqueline C. Djedje ; Give me silence, space, and a dance : the pianistic style of Thelonious Monk / Kwasi Ampene -- Section 5. Analysis of written compositions. J.H. Kwabena Nketia's Republic suite : an analytical portrait of movement I / Nissio Fiagbedzi ; Representing Africa through creative ethnomusicology : minimalism and postcolonial themes in the music of Samuel Akpabot / Bode Omojola ; Exploring the ontology and application of the "Nketia dominant seventh chord" / George W.K. Dor -- Section 6. Discourses of gender. Women doing music : the lives and songs of contemporary Ghanaian women musicians / Abena Kyere and Akosua Admako Ampofo ; Is a woman only worth the rib of a man? : the place of women in Zimbabwean musical arts, past and present / Bridget Chininourini -- Section 7. Embracing dondology, establishing a vision. Applied ethnomusicology : my lifelong exploration and expression as a dondologist / Craig Woodson ; Dondology : music, mind, and matter / George P. Hagan -- Section 8. Experiencing and archiving the vision / Kwabena Nketia and the creative arts : the genesis of the School of Music and Drama, and the formation of the Ghana Dance Ensemble / Patience A. Kwakwa ; Professor J.H. Kwabena Nketia : ethnomusicologist and educator / Mitchel Strumpf ; Biographical writing and individual creativity in African musicology / Jesse D. Ruskin ; Kwabena Nketia and the genesis of archival collections at the Institute of African Studies / Godwin K. Adjei ; Nketia, nationalism, and the Ghana Dance Ensemble / Paul W. Schauert ; Representation : my Africanist perspective / Sylvanus K. Kuwor -- Memories. The Two-Day International Conference, University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies, September 23-24, 2011.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1533

ISBN

• 9781607853473
• 1607853477

OCLC

914542434

Title

Discourses in African musicology : J.H. Kwabena Nketia festschrift / edited by Kwasi Ampene with Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Godwin K. Adjei, Albert K. Awedoba.

Publisher

[Ann Arbor, Michigan] : African Studies Center, University of Michigan : Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Michigan ; Legon ; Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Nketia, J. H. Kwabena, dedicatee.

Ampene, Kwasi, 1965- editor.

Adomako Ampofo, Akosua, editor.

Adjei, Godwin K., editor.

Awedoba, A. K., editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1533

JME 17-103