The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa

by Stone,Ruth M.; Stone,Ruth M.

• ISBN13: 9780824060350
• ISBN10: 0824060350
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The premiere volume of theGarland Encyclopedia of World Musicseries offers a comprehensive view of African music as a vital part of the social and cultural life of it peoples. The 34 expert contributors have all conducted fieldwork in Africa and their firsthand experience is reflected in the immediacy of their observations. In 39 articles, this encyclopedia explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years - a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverage; emphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations isolated from other performing traditions; and presents the fresh insights and analyses of musicologists and anthropologists of diverse national origins-African, Asian, European and American. Also includes nine maps and 96 music examples.

Table of Contents

Audio Examples	vii	(2)
About The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music	ix	(2)
Preface	xi
Part 1 Introduction to African Music	1	(100)
Profile of Africa	2	(5)
Ruth M. Stone
African Music in a Constellation of Arts	7	(6)
Ruth M. Stone
The Scholarly Study of African Music: A Historical Review	13	(61)
J. H. Kwabena Nketia
The Representation of African Music in Early Documents	74	(27)
John McCall
Part 2 Issues and Processes in African Music	101	(338)
Identities: Music and Other African Arts	102	(22)
Barbara L. Hampton
Time in African Performance	124	(22)
Ruth M. Stone
Notation and Oral Tradition	146	(18)
Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Issues of Timbre: The Inanga Chuchotee	164	(44)
Cornelia Fales
Compositional Practices in African Music	208	(24)
Atta Annan Mensah
Art-Composed Music in Africa	232	(22)
Johnston Akuma-Kalu Njoku
Theory and Technology in African Music	254	(17)
Simha Arom
Frederic Voisin
Tumbuka Healing	271	(14)
Steven Friedson
Dance in Communal Life	285	(8)
Patience A. Kwakwa
Intra-African Streams of Influence	293	(34)
Gerhard Kubik
Islam in Liberia	327	(23)
Lester P. Monts
The Guitar in Africa	350	(20)
Andrew L. Kaye
Kru Mariners and Migrants of the West African Coast	370	(13)
Cynthia Schmidt
Latin American Musical Influences in Zaire	383	(6)
Kazadi wa Mukuna
Rural-Urban Interchange: The Anlo-Ewe	389	(11)
Daniel Avorgbedor
Foreign-Indigenous Interchange: The Yoruba	400	(15)
Christopher Brooks
Popular Music in Africa	415	(24)
Angela Impey
Part 3 Regional Case Studies	439	(354)
West Africa	441	(90)
West Africa: An Introduction	442	(29)
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
Yoruba Popular Music	471	(17)
Christopher Waterman
Praise Singing in Northern Sierra Leone	488	(27)
Laura Arntson
Hausa Performance	515	(16)
Fremont E. Besmer
North Africa	531	(66)
North Africa: An Introduction	532	(17)
Caroline Card Wendt
Music in Sudan	549	(25)
Artur Simon
Tuareg Music	574	(23)
Caroline Card Wendt
East Africa	597	(52)
East Africa: An Introduction	598	(12)
Peter Cooke
Music and Poetry in Somalia	610	(12)
John William Johnson
Music in Kenya	622	(11)
Paul N. Kavyu
Music in Tanzania	633	(16)
Stephen H. Martin
Central Africa	649	(50)
Central Africa: An Introduction	650	(31)
Gerhard Kubik
Musical Life in the Central African Republic	681	(18)
Michelle Kisliuk
Southern Africa	699	(94)
Southern Africa: An Introduction	700	(22)
John E. Kaemmer
Harmony in Luvale Music of Zambia	722	(22)
Kenichi Tsukada
Music of the Shona of Zimbabwe	744	(15)
John E. Kaemmer
Popular Music in South Africa	759	(22)
David B. Coplan
Performance in Madagascar	781	(12)
Mireille Rakotomalala
Glossary	793	(16)
A Guide to Publications on African Music	809	(8)
A Guide to Recordings of African Music	817	(4)
A Guide to Films and Videos	821	(2)
Notes on the Audio Examples	823	(4)
Index	827