African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe write by Mhoze Chikowero. This book was released on 2015-11-24. African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.
African Music
African Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Music write by Alexander Akorlie Agordoh. This book was released on 2005. African Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
African Polyphony and Polyrhythm
African Polyphony and Polyrhythm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Polyphony and Polyrhythm write by Simha Arom. This book was released on 1991. African Polyphony and Polyrhythm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An original approach to the understanding of the complete and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm of African music.
Representing African Music
Representing African Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representing African Music write by Kofi Agawu. This book was released on 2014-04-23. Representing African Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Music of Africa
The Music of Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Music of Africa write by J. H. Kwabena Nketia. This book was released on 1974. The Music of Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of African music is a study at once of unity and diversity. The range of indigenous musical resources and practices found on this vast continent is as wide and varies as its topography. In this informative and highly readable book, Professor Nketia provides an overview of the musical traditions of Africa with respect to their historical, cultural, and social background, their organization and practice, and delineates the most significant aspects of musical style.
