| Series |
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 80, 0069-9624 ;
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 80. ^A477074
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| Contents |
The concept of preservation in ethnomusicology / Bruno Nettl -- All musical cultures are about equally complex / Mantle Hood -- Toward a definition of traditional African music: a look at the Ewe of Ghana / W. Komla Amoaku -- On signing and symbolism in music: the evidence from among an African people / Nissio Fiagbedzi -- Aesthetic and social aspects of music in African ritual settings / Daphne D. Harrison -- Women and music in Sudanic Africa / Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje -- Music and dance guilds in Igede / Robert W. Nicholls -- Ecstatic singing: music and social integration in an African church / Bennetta Jules-Rosette -- A Yoruba/Nago "melotype" for religious songs in the African diaspora: continuity of West African praise song in the new world / David B. Welch -- They sing with the voice of the drum: Afro-Panamanian musical traditions / Ronald R. Smith. |
| Abstract |
This book is the result of a symposium on African and Afro-American music which was sponsored by the Center for Ethnic Music at Howard University. It is the first of a projected two-volume work--this one includes Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Except for the first two essays by two pioneers in American ethnomusicology, Bruno Netti and Mantle Hood, the remaining eight chapters are by young scholars of African and African-derived music. The editor explains that her goal is to provide the scholarly community with a collection of ethnomusicological essays covering Africa and the Afro-Americas. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 84008956 |
| ISBN | 0313230935 (lib. bdg.) |
