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Discourses in African Musicology: J.H. Kwabena Nketia Festschrift

Kwasi Ampene, Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Godwin K. Adjei and Albert K. Awedoba
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Discourses in African Musicology: J.H. Kwabena Nketia Festschrift highlights the proceedings of a 2011 conference at the University of Ghana in honor of Professor J.H. Kwabena Nketia on his 90th birthday. Professor Nketia was instrumental in shaping the field of ethnomusicology and providing the foundation for an African Musicology. The conference gave scholars and performers an occasion to explore the multi-faceted subject of African music studies, and provided its many attendees the opportunity to extend the scholarly discourse on African music.
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: Expressing Language, Expressing Music
    • Language and Music: Mind, Body, Meaning by M.E. Kropp Dakubu
    • Nketia’s Influence in Ntahera Hocketand Surrogate Speech Analyses by Joseph S. Kaminski
    • The Textual Basis of African Drumming by Modesto Amegago
  • Section 2: Analysis of Traditional Music
    • Sweetness in Agbadza Music by David Locke
    • A Theory of Infinite Variation by Brenda M. Romero
    • Kete for the International Percussion Community by Ben Paulding
    • Spontaneity, Improvisation, and Musical and Social Aesthetics in Ghanaian Kpanlogo Music and Dance by Amy Unruh
  • Section 3: Singing History
    • Kasena Maiden Songs by Albert K. Awedoba and Alexis L. Danti
    • Documentation of Slavery in Ghanaian Folklore by Mawuli Adjei
  • Section 4: Diasporic Dialogues and Currents
    • Music and Diasporas within West Africa by Jacqueline C. DjeDje
    • Give Me Silence, Space, and a Dance by Kwasi Ampene
  • Section 5: Analysis of Written Compositions
    • J. H. Kwabena Nketia’s Republic Suite: An Analytical Portrait of Movement 1 by Nissio Fiagbedzi
    • Representing Africa Through Creative Ethnomusicology by Bode Omojola
    • Exploring the Ontology and Application of the “Nketia Dominant Seventh Chord” by George W.K. Dor
  • Section 6: Discourses of Gender
    • Women Doing Music by Abena Kyere and Akosua Adomako Ampofo
    • Is a Woman Only Worth the Rib of a Man? by Bridget Chinouriri
  • Section 7: Embracing Dondology—Establishing a Vision
    • Applied Ethnomusicology: My Lifelong Exploration and Expression as a Dondologist by Craig P. Woodson
    • Dondology: Music, Mind And Matter by George P. Hagan
  • Section 8: Experiencing and Archiving the Vision
    • Kwabena Nketia and The Creative Arts by Patience A. Kwakwa
    • Professor J. H. Kwabena Nketia: Ethnomusicologist and Educator by Mitchel Strumpf
    • Biographical Writing and Individual Creativity in African Musicology by Jesse D. Ruskin
    • Kwabena Nketia and the Genesis of Archival Collections at the Institute of African Studies by Godwin K. Adjei
    • Nketia, Nationalism, and the Ghana Dance Ensemble by Paul W. Schauert
    • Representation: My Africanist Perspective by Sylvanus K. Kuwor
  • MEMORIES: Two-Day International Conference, University of Ghana Institute of African Studies
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Published: 2015
Publisher: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-60785-347-3 (paper)
  • 978-1-60785-742-6 (open access)
Series
  • Maize Books
Subject
  • African-American and African Studies
  • Music / Ethnomusicology
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