African Rhythm and African Sensibility Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms

Name: African Rhythm and African Sensibility Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms
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ISBN: 9780226103457

ISBN-10: 0226103455

ISBN-13: 9780226103457

Edition: 1981

Authors: John Miller Chernoff

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"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."—Andrew Tracey, African Music "John Miller Chernoff, who spent 10 years studying African drumming, has a flair for descriptive writing, and his first-person narratives should be easily understood by any reader, while ringing unmistakably true for the reader who has also been to West Africa."—Roderick Knight, Washington Post Book World "Ethnomusicologists must be proud that their discipline has produced a book that will, beyond doubt, rank as a classic of African studies."—Peter Fryer, Research in Literatures "A marvelous book. . . . Not many scholars will ever be able to…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



List of Plates


Acknowledgments Pronunciation and Transliteration


Introduction: Scholarship and Participation



The Study of Music in Africa



Music in Africa



Style in Africa



Values in Africa


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index