Author: John Collins
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9780894100758
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
Musicmakers of West Africa
Author: John Collins
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9780894100758
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9780894100758
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
Highlife Music in West Africa
Author: Sonny Oti
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 978842208X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 978842208X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Music in West Africa
Author: Edna Marilyn Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Music in West Africa
Author: Ruth M. Stone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
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.
Women's Songs from West Africa
Author: Thomas A. Hale
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253010217
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253010217
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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.
History and the Organisation of Music in West Africa
Author: J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Music in West Africa
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
West African Pop Roots
Author: John Collins
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439904979
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The nearest thing we have in the twentieth century to a global folk music.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439904979
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The nearest thing we have in the twentieth century to a global folk music.
Songs of West Africa
Author: Dan Gorlin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970443908
Category : Music
Languages : ee
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970443908
Category : Music
Languages : ee
Pages : 156
Book Description
African Music
Author: Alexander Akorlie Agordoh
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781594545542
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
It is customary in the Western world for people to use the term 'African music' as if it were a single clearly identifiable phenomenon. One should not be surprised at the diversity of music and the difficulty of isolating distinctly African features common to the whole continent. This important book is an overview of music in Africa.
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781594545542
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
It is customary in the Western world for people to use the term 'African music' as if it were a single clearly identifiable phenomenon. One should not be surprised at the diversity of music and the difficulty of isolating distinctly African features common to the whole continent. This important book is an overview of music in Africa.