Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra - 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 Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra write by Steven Feld. This book was released on 2012-03-09. Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The distinguished scholar Steven Feld shaped the field of the anthropology of sound and music. In this new work, he looks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, including some who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. He describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound. Feld combines memoir, biography, ethnography, and history, telling a story of diasporic intimacy and dialogue that contests both American nationalist and Afrocentric narrations of jazz history.
Highlife Saturday Night
Highlife Saturday Night - 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 Highlife Saturday Night write by Nate Plageman. This book was released on 2013. Highlife Saturday Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational social relations, Nate Plageman shows how popular music was central to the rhythm of daily life in a West African nation. He traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the 20th century and documents a range of figures that fueled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.
Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana
Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana - 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 Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana write by Joseph S.Kaminski. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral traditions, written accounts, archaeological evidence, transcriptions and linguistic analyses to situate the Asante trumpet tradition in historical culture. There are seven ivory trumpet ensembles in residence at the Asante Manhyia Palace in Kumase, and ivory trumpets are blown at every Akan court. The Asante trumpets, which are made from elephant tusks, are symbols of Asante strength and have an important role in Asante cosmology. Surrogate speech is performed via lipped tones through a tusk in praise of the Asante royal ancestors and the living Asante king. This book contains transcriptions and analyses of surrogate speech texts and their accompanying ensemble songs. When several ensembles play simultaneously as a representation of power, they make staggered entrances, beginning separate songs in order. This results in a simultaneous performance of separate songs. This phenomenon, which Kaminski has termed 'sound-barrage', is an ancient aesthetic, and is performed to protect the kingdom and the ancestors. It is both spiritual and acoustical. This 'sound barrage' is believed to act in the metaphysical world, dispelling evil spirits from court rituals, ancestor venerations, and funerals, for there is a spirit in the sound.
Sound and Sentiment
Sound and Sentiment - 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 Sound and Sentiment write by Steven Feld. This book was released on 2012-10-02. Sound and Sentiment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new, thirtieth-anniversary edition of the landmark ethnography that introduced the anthropology, or the cultural study, of sound.
Africa Speaks, America Answers
Africa Speaks, America Answers - 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 Africa Speaks, America Answers write by Robin D. G. Kelley. This book was released on 2012-03-13. Africa Speaks, America Answers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950's and '60's who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music and the world. Each artist identified in particular ways with Africa's struggle for liberation and made music dedicated to, or inspired by, demands for independence and self-determination. That music was the wild, boundary-breaking exultation of modern jazz. The result was an abundance of conversation, collaboration, and tension between African and African American musicians during the era of decolonization. This collective biography demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered politics and culture on both continents. In a crucial moment when freedom electrified the African diaspora, these black artists sought one another out to create new modes of expression. Documenting individuals and places, from Lagos to Chicago, from New York to Cape Town, Robin Kelley gives us a meditation on modernity: we see innovation not as an imposition from the West but rather as indigenous, multilingual, and messy, the result of innumerable exchanges across a breadth of cultures.
