Turn Up the Volume!: A Celebration of African Music

by Djedje, Jacqueline Cogdell; Brown, Ernest Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780930741778
• ISBN10: 0930741773
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(1)
Introduction	12	(8)
Part One: Music in African Life
African and African American Lamellophones: History, Typology, Nomenclature, Performers, and Intracultural Concepts	20	(38)
Gerhard Kubik
West Africa: When the Xylophone Speaks	58	(10)
Heather A. Maxwell
African Traditional Musical Instruments in Neo-African Idioms and Contexts	68	(10)
Akin Euba
Ritual, Lore, and Music in the Pre-Islamic Vai Funerary Sequence	78	(12)
Lester P. Monts
Ingolole: Then We Shall See	90	(8)
Jean Ngoya Kidula
The Fulbe Fiddle in The Gambia: A Symbol of Ethnic Identity	98	(16)
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
The Luna Drum as Social Mediator among the Dagbamba of Ghana	114	(10)
Leigh Creighton
Make Army Tanks for War into Church Bells for Peace: Observations on Musical Change and Other Adaptations in Ethiopia during the 1990s	124	(10)
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin
Part Two: Africa and the Diaspora: Cross-Cultural Influences
The Lyre of the Arab Gulf: Historical Roots, Geographical Links, and the Local Context	134	(6)
All Jihad Racy
``Tum Up the Volume!'' The African Aesthetic in Trinidad's Carnival Music	140	(18)
Ernest D. Brown Jr.
The Voice of Ginen: Drums in Haitian Religion, History, and Identity	158	(12)
Victoria Simmons
The African Legacy: The Use of Music and Musical Instruments in the Candomble Religion of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil	170	(12)
Clarence Bernard Henry
Ethnomusicology and the Study of Africanisms in the Music of Latin America	182	(4)
Kazadi wa Mukuna
Reflections on Eli Owens's Mouth-Bow: African American One-Stringed Instrumental Traditions and Their African Backgrounds	186	(8)
Gerhard Kubik
Africa and Jazz: The Melo-Rhythmic Essence of Warren ``Baby'' Dodds	194	(16)
Eddie S. Meadows
Musical Collages of Sound: Technologizing the Band in the Rap Music Tradition	210	(10)
Cheryl L. Keyes
The Introduction as Signature: An Analysis of Western Musical Instruments in Chimurenga, Mbaqanga, and Motown	220	(10)
Kimasi L. Browne
The Role of the Gumbe in Popular Music and Dance Styles in Sierra Leone	230	(6)
Christian Dowu Jayeola Horton
Part Three: Catalog	236	(102)
Notes to the Text	338	(12)
References Cited	350