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African musicology : current trends : a festschrift presented to J.H. Kwabena Nketia

Title: African musicology : current trends : a festschrift presented to J.H. Kwabena Nketia / Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, editor and William G. Carter, associate editor.
Publication: [Los Angeles] : African Studies Center & African Arts Magazine, University of California, Los Angeles ; [Atlanta, Ga.] : Crossroads Press/African Studies Association, 1989-1992.

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2 volumes : illustrations; 26 cm

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Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

V.1. J. H. Kwabena Nketia: A biobibliographical portrait -- Tributes -- African musicology: an assessment of the field / Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and William G. Carter -- Toward a philosophy of theory in ethnomusicological research / Nissio Fiagbedzi -- The relevance of ethnomusicology to anthropology: strategies of inquiry and interpretation / John M. Chernoff -- Kakraba Lobi: master xylophonist of Ghana / Ben A. Aning -- The role and function of music at Yoruba festivals / Tunji Vidal -- Aló -- Yoruba chantefables: an integrated approach towards West African music and oral literature / Gerhard Kubik -- Trumpet and flute ensembles of the Berta people in the Sudan / Artur Simon -- Vai women's roles in music, masking, and ritual performance / Lester P. Monts -- Womanhood, work and song among the Kpelle of Liberia / Cynthia E. Schmidt -- Ornaments and their classification as a determinant of technical ability and musical style / Cynthia Tse Kimberlin -- Features, musical operations, and composition: a derivation from Ewe drum music / Wayne Stawson -- Moods for flute and piano, I and II / Gertrude Rivers Robinson
V.2. Transformation and reorientation. The arts of Africa : dawn or twilight? music / Atta Annan Mensah -- The process of education and the search fro identity in contemporary African msuic / Mosúnmólá A. Omíbîyí-Obidike -- Yoruba music in the church : the development of a Neo-African art among the Yoruba of Nigeria / Akin Eúbá -- Contrafactum and parodied song texts in religious music : a discussion of problems and challenges in contemproary African music / Adolphus R. Turkson -- Kora music of the Mandinka : source material for world musics / Roderic C. Knight -- Rap music : Afrikan music renaissance in American / Kwaku Person-Lynn -- The African/African American idiom in music : family resemblances in black music / Ernest D. Brown -- Music and language. Music and gender in Ga society : Adaawe song poetry / Barbara L. Hampton -- Music and history. Music and history : an analysis of Hausa and Dagbamba fiddle traditions / Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje -- Agahu : music across many nations / Kobla Ladzekpo and Alan Eder -- Methodology and bilbiography. Voiceprints of Omani traditional music / Ki Mantle Hood -- An ethnography of the moan -- and -- Prayer event in tow African American Baptist churches in southeast Alabama / Willie R. Collins -- Africa and the blues scale : a selected review of the literature / Eddie S. Meadows

ISBN

0918456622
9780918456625
0918456649
9780918456649

LCCN

88028531

OCLC

ocm18497214
18497214
SCSB-14690076

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Princeton University Library