Theory Of African Music Volume I
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Author |
: Gerhard Kubik |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 465 |
Release |
: 2010-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226456911 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226456919 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theory of African Music, Volume I by : Gerhard Kubik
Vol. 1 previously published in 1994 by F. Noetzel.
Author |
: Gerhard Kubik |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 465 |
Release |
: 2010-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226456928 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226456927 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theory of African Music, Volume I by : Gerhard Kubik
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 |
: Gerhard Kubik |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2010-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226456942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226456943 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theory of African Music, Volume II by : Gerhard Kubik
Vol. 1 previously published in 1994 by F. Noetzel.
Author |
: Kofi Agawu |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2014-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317794066 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317794060 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Representing African Music by : Kofi Agawu
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 |
: Gerhard Kubik |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1578061466 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781578061464 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa and the Blues by : Gerhard Kubik
In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through connections like these Kubik realized that the link between these two far-flung musicians is African-American music, the sound that became the blues. Such discoveries reveal a narrative of music evolution for Kubik, a cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. Traveling in Africa, Brazil, Venezuela, and the United States, he spent forty years in the field gathering the material for Africa and the Blues. In this book, Kubik relentlessly traces the remote genealogies of African cultural music through eighteen African nations, especially in the Western and Central Sudanic Belt. Included is a comprehensive map of this cradle of the blues, along with 31 photographs gathered in his fieldwork. The author also adds clear musical notations and descriptions of both African and African American traditions and practices and calls into question the many assumptions about which elements of the blues were "European" in origin and about which came from Africa. Unique to this book is Kubik's insight into the ways present-day African musicians have adopted and enlivened the blues with their own traditions. With scholarly care but with an ease for the general reader, Kubik proposes an entirely new theory on blue notes and their origins. Tracing what musical traits came from Africa and what mutations and mergers occurred in the Americas, he shows that the African American tradition we call the blues is truly a musical phenomenon belonging to the African cultural world [Publisher description].
Author |
: Bill Banfield |
Publisher |
: Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2011-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810877870 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0810877872 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Representing Black Music Culture by : Bill Banfield
In this collection of essays, interviews, and profiles, William Banfield reflects on his life as a musician and educator, as he weaves together pieces of cultural criticism and artistry, all the while paying homage to Black music of the last 40 years and beyond. In Representing Black Music Culture: Then, Now, and When Again?, Banfield honors the legacy of artists who have graced us with their work for more than half a century. The essays and interviews in this collection are enhanced by seven years of daily diary entries, which reflect on some of the country's most respected Black composers, recording artists, authors, and cultural icons. These include Ornette Coleman, Bobby McFerrin, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Gordon Parks, the Marsalis brothers, Spike Lee, Maya Angelou, Patrice Rushen, and many others. Though many of the individuals Banfield lauds are well-known to most readers, he also turns his attention to musicians and artists whose work, while perhaps unheralded by the world at large, are no less deserving of praise and respect for their contributions to the culture. In addition, this volume is filled with candid photographs of many of these fellow artists as they participate in expressive culture, whether on stage, on tour, in clubs, behind the scenes, in rehearsal, or even during meals and teaching class. This unique book of essays, interviews, diary entries, and Banfield's personal photographs will be of interest to scholars and students, of course, but also to general readers interested in absorbing and appreciating the beauty of Black culture.
Author |
: Gerhard Kubik |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:876610128 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theory of African Music by : Gerhard Kubik
Author |
: Victor Kofi Agawu |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190263201 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190263202 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The African Imagination in Music by : Victor Kofi Agawu
The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values upon which it rests. Agawu leads his readers through an exploration of the traditions, structural elements, instruments, and performative techniques that characterize the music. In sections that focus upon rhythm, melody, form, and harmony, the essential parts of African music come into relief. While traditional music, the backbone of Africa's musical thinking, receives the most attention, Agawu also supplies insights into popular and art music in order to demonstrate the breadth of the African musical imagination. Close readings of a variety of songs, including an Ewe dirge, an Aka children's song, and Fela's 'Suffering and Smiling' supplement the broader discussion. The African Imagination in Music foregrounds a hitherto under-reported legacy of recordings and insists on the necessity of experiencing music as sound in order to appreciate and understand it fully. Accordingly, a Companion Website features important examples of the music discussed in detail in the book. Accessibly and engagingly written for a general audience, The African Imagination in Music is poised to renew interest in Black African music and to engender discussion of its creative underpinnings by Africanists, ethnomusicologists, music theorists and musicologists.
Author |
: Meki Nzewi |
Publisher |
: African Minds |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2007-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781920051624 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1920051627 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Contemporary Study of Musical Arts Vol. 1 by : Meki Nzewi
Volume 1 - The Root: Foundation Modern literacy education in African music has hitherto focused more on observed context studies. The philosophical rooting and the psychological and therapeutic force that ground African indigenous musical arts have not been much discerned or integrated. Much needed in contemporary education, then, are integrative studies and literature materials that represent the intellectual base of the knowledge owners and creators, and which will ensure cognitive understanding of the indigenous musical arts systems of Africa. There is as yet no comprehensive, learner-centred book that fosters African indigenous knowledge perspectives and rationalisation about the musical arts. The concern over the years has been for the production of research-informed books for modern, systematic education in African musical arts that derive in essence from the original African intellectual perspectives about the sense and meaning of music - indigenous to contemporary. The five volumes of the musical arts study series derive from 36 years of research and analytical studies in African musical arts. The volumes address the pressing need for learning texts informed by the indigenous African musical arts systems that target tertiary education. The texts incorporate knowledge of conventional European classical music as they relate to the unique features of African musical arts thinking and theoretical content. The contemporary African musical arts specialist needs secure grounding in his/her own human-cultural knowledge authority in order to contribute with original intellectual integrity to African as well as global scholarship discourse and knowledge creation.
Author |
: Meki Nzewi |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 141 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1920355022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781920355029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Classical Ensemble Music by : Meki Nzewi