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.
Composing the Music of Africa
Composing 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 Composing the Music of Africa write by Malcolm Floyd. This book was released on 2018-12-17. Composing the Music of Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1999, this volume explores the great diversity of music created by African communities is reflected in this book, which discusses the ways in which a wide range of musical forms are composed and performed from Egypt to South Africa and from Ghana to Kenya. As two composers explain here, this diversity provides much inspiration for western contemporary composition. Particular attention is paid to the contexts generate musical creativity. Ceremonies and festivals celebrating birth, death, marriage or rites of passage provide the impetus for much composition and performance, enabling young people to pick up, early on, some of the techniques and styles of which they then become the new exponents. The book also looks at the role played by formal music education programmes and bodies such as the South African Music Rights Organization and the South African Broadcasting Corporation in fostering musical activity, as well as the contribution of composers to the social and political changes that have dominated South African life in recent years.
Hip Hop Africa
Hip Hop 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 Hip Hop Africa write by Eric Charry. This book was released on 2012-10-23. Hip Hop Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of drumming. Covering Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa, this volume offers unique perspectives on the presence and development of hip hop and other music in Africa and their place in global music culture.
Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa
Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music 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 Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa write by Annemette Kirkegaard. This book was released on 2002. Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The musics of Africa play a particularly important role in expressing and forming identities. This book brings together African and Nordic scholars from both musicology and other disciplines in an attempt to analyse various aspects of the complex playing with volatile identities in music in Africa today. Taken together the papers put new light on the assumed or real dichotomies between countryside and city, collective and individual, tradition and modernity, authentic and alien. The papers are based on contributions for a conference organized by the research project “Cultural Images in and of Africa†of the Nordic Africa Institute together with the Sibelius Museum/Department of Musicology and the Centre for Continuing Education at Ã...bo Akademi University in Ã...bo (Turku), Finland in October 2000. The book includes a keynote speech by Christopher Waterman (UCLA), and an introduction by Annemette Kirkegaard, Copenhagen University. Southern, West and East Africa are represented in the studies, which cover a great variety of musics.
Music in West Africa
Music in West 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 in West Africa write by Ruth M. Stone. This book was released on 2005. Music in West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book introduces the musical traditions of West Africa and discusses the diversity, motifs, and structure of West African music within the larger patterns of the region's culture.
