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Title The Garland handbook of African music / edited by Ruth M. Stone.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Edition Second edition.
Description 1 online resource (xix, 501 pages) : illustrations, maps, music
1 online resource (1 audio file (digital)
data file
Discography
Filmography
Physical Medium polychrome
Note "Abridged paperback edition of Africa, volume 1 of The Garland encyclopedia of world music, with the addition of a new article, 'Exploring African Music' as well as articles by Alex Perullo, Gregory Barz and Judah Cohen, Daniel B. Reed, Jeffrey A. Summit, Jane Goodman, and Clara Henderson. The reed article is adapted from previous publication by Indiana University Press"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-478) and index.
Discography: pages 479-483.
Filmography: pages 484-485.
Contents Profile of Africa ; African music in a constellation of arts ; Exploring African music / Ruth M. Stone -- Notation and oral tradition / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- Conceptions of song : ownership, rights, and African copyright law / Alex Perullo -- Dance in communal life / Patience A. Kwakwa -- Islam in Liberia / Lester P. Monts -- The guitar in Africa / Andrew L. Kaye -- Kru mariners and migrants of the west African coast / Cynthia Schmidt -- Popular music in Africa / Angela Impey -- Music and HIV/AIDS in Africa / Gregory Barz and Judah Cohen -- West Africa : an introduction / Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje -- Yoruba popular music / Christopher Waterman -- "The tradition" and identity in a diversifying context / Daniel Reed -- North Africa : an introduction ; Tuareg music / Caroline Card Wendt -- From village to vinyl : genealogies of new Kabyle song / Jane E. Goodman -- East Africa : an introduction / Peter Cooke -- Music and identity among the Abayudaya (Jewish people) of Uganda / Jeffrey A. Summit -- Central Africa : an introduction / Gerhard Kubik -- Musical life in the Central African Republic / Michelle Kisliuk -- Southern Africa : an introduction / John E. Kaemmer -- Popular music in South Africa / David B. Coplan -- Dance and gender in as contested sites in southern Malawi Presbyterian churches / Clara Henderson.
On accompanying CD: Kpelle, Woi-meni-lele excerpt (4:27) -- Ethiopian, Lidet (Christmas) celebration (3:08) -- Inaga Chuchotée (whispered inanga) (4:12) -- Vai call to prayer (5:07) -- Palm-wine highlife song (2:56) -- Silimu Yayidha Okulamula (AIDS came to judge us) (3:03) -- Gedro (Dance mask spirit) performance (2:41) -- Anol-Ewe, kinda songs (2:13) -- Manknka, Manareh praise song (balabolo) including Nyin min nyama nyama (5:44) -- Bala, pattern of Maninka Mansareh bolo)0:51) -- Maninka, Duwa praise song (1:15) -- Tuareg, Tihadanaren (1:57) -- Tuareg, takemba song Khadisia (1:32) -- Basoga, lusaga song Enyhonyhi kolojo Thieving birds (4:00) -- Baganda, akadinda song Gganga aluwa Gganga escaped with his life (2:26) -- Lekhah, Dodi (Come, my beloved) (5:20) -- Somali, caayar dhaanto, excerpt 1 (2:45) -- Somali, caayar dhaanto, excerpt 2 (0:16) -- Popular song, Motike Orphans (2:02) -- Makala, a song performed during a BaAka (Pygmy) hunting dance called Mabo (2:30) -- BaAda of Dzanga perform a song during the eboka ya nzapa god dance in the style of neighboring Bolamba pygmies (2:12) -- Shona, Munyonga mbira song Tongore (2:25) -- Shona ancestral spirit song, Nyama musange (2:45) -- Rock of ages cleft for me (Thanthwe Long'ambikatu).
Summary The Garland Handbook of African Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa (1997). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Africa and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Music -- Africa -- History and criticism.
Music.
Africa.
Folk music -- Africa -- History and criticism.
Folk music.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
CD.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Stone, Ruth M.
Added Title Garland encyclopedia of world music. Vol. 1, Africa.
Other Form: Print version: Garland handbook of African music. Second edition 9780415961028 (DLC) 2007047402 (OCoLC)181730647
ISBN 0203927877 (electronic book)
9780203927878 (electronic book)
9781135900014 (electronic book)
1135900019 (electronic book)
0415961025
9780415961028