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Central African Guitar Song Composers, the Second and Third Generation. Field recordings 1962-2009. Gerhard Kubik and associates. Department of Musicology, University of Vienna, Vienna Series in Ethnomusicology 3, 2009. 49 pp. CD 25 tracks, booklet, photographs.
Get PDFLife is short, art and scholarship are long: a tribute in memory of Professor Willie Oscar Anku.
Get PDFThis tribute, which memorializes Professor Willie Anku, is in two parts. While Part II offers insights from his scholarship on African rhythm, Part I is modeled on a typical Ghanaian eulogy, because I think it appropriate to honor an Africanist with a tribute that draws on elements of his own African culture
The Lala kalimba: the correlation between instrument and style.
Get PDFOnce I got the opportunity to go to Zambia to conduct field research and stay with the Lala people for several months, I discovered much to my delight that the kalimba - the lamellophone found there - took an important place in the musical culture of the Lala. THe richness and variety of the music and the open-heartedness of the musicians turned out to be a revelation to me. Moreover, it became clear that through the kalimba other aspects of the Lala society could be exposed
Ancient Text Messages of the Yorùbá Bà tá Drum Cracking the Code. Amanda Villepastour. 2010. Farnham: Ashgate, SOAS Musicology Series. 173 pp. photos, transcriptions, CD. ISBN 978-0-7546-6753-7 hb, ISBN 0754667537 pb.
Get PDFEast African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization. Mwenda Ntarangwi. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2009. 158 pp. ISBN: 978-0-252-076534 pb; 978-0-252-03457-2 hb.
Get PDFParading respectability: the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa and the constitution of subjectivity.
Get PDFIn my research on the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape (November 2003 to March 2006), which this extract from my field notes speaks to, I have often observed how important it is for the bands to display their respectability and discipline. In this article I investigate how the bands constitute themselves as respectable members of society through disciplinary routines, uniform dress, and military gestures
Memory, Music and Religion: Morocco\u27s Mystical Chanters. Earl H. Waugh. 2005. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press:. xix, 260 pp. illustrations, musical examples, glossary, index. ISBN-10 1570035679. ISBN-13 9781570035678.
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