The Garland handbook of African music / edited by Ruth M. Stone.
Stone, Ruth M.
2008
ML350 .G54 2008 (Mapit)
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Title The Garland handbook of African music / edited by Ruth M. Stone.
Uniform Title Garland encyclopedia of world music. Vol. 1, Africa.
Edition 2nd ed.
ISBN 9780415961028 paperback
0415961025 paperback
Publication Details New York : Routledge, 2008.
Language English
Description xix, 501 p. : ill., maps, music ; 26 cm + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Call Number ML350 .G54 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 780.96
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.
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"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-478) and index.
Discography: p. 479-483.
Filmography: p. 484-485.
Added Author Stone, Ruth M.
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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).

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