Representing African Music
Representing African Music

Author: Kofi Agawu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1317794060

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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.

The Notes and Queries Folklore Column, 1849-1947
The Notes and Queries Folklore Column, 1849-1947

Author: Stephen Miller

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2021-08-18

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1527573966

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A major source for England’s folklore heritage and vernacular culture is found in the Folklore Column in the periodical Notes and Queries which ran from 1849 to 1947. Previously, to locate material meant using each of the 15 General Indexes in turn. Instead, this book presents, for the first time, a consolidated index to the contents not only of the Folklore Column, but to other material of interest. Besides the index to Folklore entries itself with some 5,450 references alone, presented here are indexes to Nursery Rhymes, Phrases, Proverbs, Rhymes, Riddles, Songs and Ballads (1,722 titles are mentioned), Provincialisms, and Dialects. Overall, the Subject Indexes here contain in total 12,168 references. As such, this book presents the reader with ready access to a neglected corpus of material.

Notes And Queries; On Anthropology
Notes And Queries; On Anthropology

Author: Charles Hercules Read

Publisher: Alpha Edition

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9789354308949

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