Music Traditions, Change and Creativity in 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 Music Traditions, Change and Creativity in Africa write by Giorgio Adamo. This book was released on 2019. Music Traditions, Change and Creativity in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In February 2014 an international seminar on musical dynamics and creativity in Africa was held at Tor Vergata University of Rome. The topic and the approach were strongly influenced by issues that Gerhard Kubik believed should have been addressed for a long time, such as the attention to cultural and social dynamics, with a specific emphasis on the creativity of individuals. Beside his keynote address, Music Traditions, Change and Creativity in Africa includes the contributions presented by scholars from different countries, particularly active in the East African area and in dialogue with Italian researchers who have field experience in the same region. Music Traditions, Change and Creativity in Africa is the first monograph of a series of volumes connected and inspired to the journal Etnografie Sonore / Sound Ethnographies (www.soundethnographies.it), which Giorgio Adamo and his colleagues recently founded. Along with the papers multimedia contents are also available online.
Musical Practice and Creativity
Musical Practice and Creativity - 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 Musical Practice and Creativity write by Meki Nzewi. This book was released on 1991. Musical Practice and Creativity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Making Music, Making Society
Making Music, Making Society - 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 Making Music, Making Society write by Josep Martí. This book was released on 2018-01-23. Making Music, Making Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A society is the result of interacting individuals, and individuals are also the result of this interaction. This interaction happens through music, among other factors. As such, music constitutes a powerful resource for symbolic interaction, which constitutes the medium and substance of a culture. The importance of music in a society is clearly brought to light in the role that it plays in the three basic parameters of the social logics: identity, social order and the need for exchange. If music is so important to us, it is because, apart from its assigned aesthetic values, it fits closely with the dynamics of each of these three different parameters. These parameters, which are consubstantial to the social nature of the human being, constitute the core of the book as they manifest in musical practices. This publication addresses important issues such as the role of music in shaping identities, how music and social order are intertwined and why music is so relevant in human interaction. The last part of the book explores issues related to the social application of musical research. The volume brings together specialists from different academic disciplines with the same powerful starting point: music is not merely something related to the social, but rather a social life itself, something capable of structuring the social experience.
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.
Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century
Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century - 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 Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century write by Bode Omojola. This book was released on 2012. Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yorùbá genres of music. From the primeval age of Ayànàgalú (the Yorùbá pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yorùbá musical traditions have been shaped by individual performers: drummers, dancers, singers, and chanters, wself-mediated visions of their social and cultural environment. Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century explores the role of the performer and the performing group in creating these traditions, contributing to the ongoing reorientation of scholarship on African music toward individual creativity within a larger social network. Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional Yorùbá genres such as bàtá and dùndún drumming as well as more contemporary genres such as Yorùbá popular music. The book also addresses a spectrum of social issues, ranging from gender inequality to the impactianity and Islam on Yorùbá musical practice. Throughout, Omojola emphasizes the interrelatedness of the different components of the Yorùbá musical landscape, as well as the role of specific individuals and groups of musicians, whohave continued to draw from indigenous Yorùbá musical resources to create new musical forms in the process of engaging the social dynamics of a rapidly changing environment. Awarded honorable mention in the 2014 Kwabena Nketia Book Competition of the African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Bode Omojola is a Five College Associate Professor of Music at Mt. Holyoke College.
