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Author : Ruth M. Stone
Release : 2005
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Music in West Africa by : Ruth M. Stone
Download or read book Music in West Africa written by Ruth M. Stone. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the musical traditions of West Africa and discusses the diversity, motifs, and structure of West African music within the larger patterns of the region's culture.
Author : Dave Kobrenski
Release : 2013-11-12
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 996/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Djoliba Crossing by : Dave Kobrenski
Download or read book Djoliba Crossing written by Dave Kobrenski. This book was released on 2013-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey into the heart of West Africa... Artist, musician, and author Dave Kobrenski takes the reader on a musical and visual journey up the Djoliba river in Guinea to explore ancient music traditions, as well as to understand the challenges that face a country "balancing between the world of its ancient traditions and the frontier of modern ideals and influences." Dozens of original paintings and drawings accompany vivid first-hand accounts of the music, culture, and people of Guinea, while scores of rhythm notations make this a unique and valuable resource for musicians, educators, and travel enthusiasts alike. From the author's preface: "Part travelogue, part sketchbook, this is a book about glimpsing in the everyday dust of existence the potential for rich and meaningful expressions of being in the world; of seeing that beyond the tattered common cloth of life hangs a veil of mystery infused with magic and wonder."
Author : John Collins
Release : 1985
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 758/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Musicmakers of West Africa by : John Collins
Download or read book Musicmakers of West Africa written by John Collins. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the development of West African popular music, this text begins with a discussion of the early Highlife bands. It then traces the growth and diversification of various popular musical styles, including comic opera, Dagomba Simpa folk, and the current Afro-beat and Juju.
Author : Thomas A. Hale
Release : 2013-12-02
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 217/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women's Songs from West Africa by : Thomas A. Hale
Download or read book Women's Songs from West Africa written by Thomas A. Hale. This book was released on 2013-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and beyond, the essays attest to the importance of women's contributions to the most widespread form of verbal art in Africa.
Author : Sonny Oti
Release : 2009
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 08X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Highlife Music in West Africa by : Sonny Oti
Download or read book Highlife Music in West Africa written by Sonny Oti. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlife Music in West Africa is an excursion into the origins and development of an extraordinary music form. Highlife music is essentially an urban music, but unlike dance music performed using Western musical instruments, its dynamism is based less in the aesthetics of form and style than in song-texts. Critics treat highlife as a popular music genre, but this fails to acknowledge the role that the lyrics of highlife music played in the search for political, economic, and national growth and stability in Africa. Highlife musicians' messages, like drama and theater scripts, not only reflect Africa's culture but also highlight her social, economic, and political problems. The involvement of radicals and Pan-Africanists has helped elevate highlife musicians from the status of entertainers to a more serious and responsible one, as modern African town criers, whose song-texts are communal messages, warnings, and counseling.
