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Music in West Africa : experiencing music, expressing culture / Ruth M. Stone

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رقم التسجيلة 2008
نوع المادة book
ردمك 0195144996 (cloth :
رقم الطلب

ML350.S76

المؤلف Stone, Ruth M

العنوان Music in West Africa : experiencing music, expressing culture / Ruth M. Stone
بيانات النشر New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
الوصف المادي xvi, 112 p : 22 cm. + ; ill
بيان السلسلة Global music series
ملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-107) and index INCLUDES CD

المحتويات / النص

Foreword Preface CD Track List 1. Traveling to West Africa Journeys Tools West Africa in Perspective Music in the Arts and Life Style Areas Ideas about Performance Musical Instruments Resources 2. Performance Facets Vocal Facets in Epic Performance Instrumental Facets in Horn Ensemble Continity 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 3. Voices: Layered Tone Colors Timbre in African Music Instruments: The Sounds of a Triangular Frame-zither 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 4. Part-Counterpart: Call and Response Call and Response Variations Non-overlapping Call and Reponse 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-Counterpoint Poro-Sande 5. 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 6. Surveying the Trip: Cutting the Edge Central Themes Glossary References Resources

المستخلص

Music in West Africa is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study. Music in West Africa presents fundamental style concepts of West African music using a focused case study of performance in Liberia, West Africa, among the Kpelle people. The book discusses the diversity, motifs, and structure of West African music within the larger patterns of the region's culture, highlighting those aspects of Kpelle music that are common to many other West African traditions. It also describes how music and dance in West Africa are tied to the fabric of everyday social and political life. Kpelle musicians value musical performance where multiple performers each contribute aspects of sound that fit together in elaborate ways. Drawing upon her extensive fieldwork and research, author Ruth Stone--who was raised in the Bong County region of Liberia--centers on key stylistic elements that Kpelle performers articulate and emphasize: faceting or breaking music into smaller parts, layering tone colors, part-counterpart relationships in musical structures, and time and polyrhythm. She explores fascinating parallels to these analytic themes in the textiles and masks of related arts and in broader cultural practices such as greeting sequences. Music in West Africa is enhanced by eyewitness accounts of local performances, interviews with key performers, and vivid illustrations. Packaged with a 70-minute CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book, it features guided listening and hands-on activities that encourage readers to engage actively and critically with the music.

المواضيع Music - Africa, West - History and criticism