84 research outputs found
A feeling of prejudice: Orpheus M. McAdoo and the Virginia Jubilee Singers in South Africa, 1890 - 1898
African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 25 August, 198
Cultural Globalization and Music. African Artists in Transnational Networks. Nadia Kiwan and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof. 2011. Palgrave Macmillan. 272 pp.
Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times, Marissa J. Moorman, Ohio University Press, 2008, 320 pp., CD, Paperback: 978-0-8214-1824-6.
Notes on musical instruments among the Fulani of Diamare (north Cameroon)
The Central Sudan, enclosing the northern parts of the Cameroons and Nigeria, South-Niger and parte of Chad, has been viewed by different scholars under various aspects as one coherent area sharing certain cultural traits. Some of these are due to the impact of Islam during the past 500 years: town-culture, feudal social hierarchy, class distinctions, and literacy. Hence, this paper attempts to give a general account of the musical organology of the Fulani in North Cameroon and to contribute to the completion of ethnomusicological knowledge in this area through the presentation of new material and the basic facts of Fulani organology (names of instruments and their parts, social usage, history)
Mande Popular Music and Cultural Policies in West Africa. Griots and Government Policy Since Independence. Graeme Counsel. 2009. Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller. 31 illus., 7 transcriptions. discography, glossary. 290pp. Bamako Sounds. The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music. Ryan Thomas Skinner. 2015. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 22 bw photos., index. 248pp. Music Culture and Conflict in Mali. Andy Morgan. 2013. Copenhagen: Freemuse. 234pp. (ebook).
L’inachèvement d’un achèvement connu
« Et puis, pense Krug, par-dessus tout, je suis un esclave des images. Nous parlons d’une chose qui est semblable à une autre alors que nous désirons, en vérité, ardemment décrire ce qui n’a d’équivalent nulle part sur cette terre ».Vladimir Nabokov, Brisure à Senestre L’Afrique du Sud est un pays de l’image et du rite par excellence. La dislocation, les passages traumatisants d’un domaine à l’autre, le caractère incomplet de l’existence dans un monde apparemment incontrôlable : bref, tous le..
Ethnomusicology and the Historical Dimension. Papers Presented at the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, London, 20-23 May 1986
Lorsqu’en 1983, le Séminaire européen d’ethnomusicologie (SEEM) tint sa première conférence à St Augustin en Allemagne, peu de participants auraient pensé que les ethnomusicologues européens, notoirement isolés et divisés, seraient en mesure non seulement d’organiser des conférences annuelles, mais encore d’en publier des actes. Deux volumes ont paru jusqu’ici. Le premier, édité par Bernard Lortat-Jacob, porte sur L’improvisation dans les musiques de tradition orale (Paris 1987), mais c’est l..
SOUTH AFRICAN MUSIC ENCYCLOPEDIA. Volume II,E to I. Ed. by Jacques P. Malan. Cape Town; Oxford University Press; 1982, pp. 513, illus.. music.
Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu s Zaire, Bob W. White, Duke University Press, 2008, 300 pp., paperback: 978-0-8223-4112-3.
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