Music in West Africa Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Name: Music in West Africa Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
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ISBN: 9780195145007

ISBN-10: 0195145003

ISBN-13: 9780195145007

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ruth M. Stone

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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. Drawing upon the author's extensive fieldwork, it explores how the music's complex rhythmic combinations in fast-paced patterns and quick, tightly orchestrated movements influence how West Africans understand themselves and their culture.

Book details

List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/5/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.39" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


CD Track List



Traveling to West Africa


Journeys


Tools


West Africa in Perspective


Music in the Arts and Life


Style Areas


Ideas about Performance


Musical Instruments


Conclusion



Performance Facets


Vocal Facets in Epic Performance


Instrumental Facets in Horn Ensemble


Continuity in Performance: Woni Ensemble


Vocal and Instrumental Facets in Bush Clearing Songs


Parallels in the Arts


Faceting: Cutting the Edge


Cloth Pattern


Masks and Carved Figures


Greeting Sequences


Obscuring Facets



Voices: Layered Tone Colors


Timbre in African Music


Instruments: The Sounds of a Triangular Framezither


The Centrality of the Voice


Instruments: Musical Bow


Sound Texture in Epic


Social Resonance


Other Timbral Dimensions of Sound


Symbolic Association of Tone Color


Cloth Color



Part-Counterpart: Call and Response


Call and Response Variations


Nonoverlapping Call and Response


Rice Planting Song


Children's Counting Song


Kpelle Rubber Camp Music


Entertainment Love Song


Overlapping Call and Response


Musical Dramatic Folktale (Chante Fable)


Epic Performance


Dialogic Relationships


Resonance


Drummer-Supporting Drummer


Gifts that Keep the Performance Going


Chief-Counterpart


Poro-Sande



Time and Polyrhythm


A Master Drummer's Life History


Fitting the Pieces Together


Rhythmic Patterns in the Epic


Contingency


Action


Inner Time


Kpelle Performance in Liberia


The Island of Lamu, East Africa


The Shona of Southern Africa


The Spiritual World


The Larger Process


Life History


Time in Local Life


Balancing the Qualitative and Quantitative



Surveying the Trip: Cutting the Edge


Central Themes


Glossary


References


Resources


Index