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Female voices from an Ewe dance-drumming community in Ghana : our music has become a divine spirit / James Burns.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3760 .B96 2009
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Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 09860 1 disc
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, James (James M.)
- Series:
- SOASIS DVD series.
- SOAS musicology series
- SOASIS DVD series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ewe (African people)--Music--History and criticism.
- Ewe (African people).
- Music--Social aspects--Ghana--Dzodze.
- Music.
- Women musicians--Ghana--Dzodze.
- Women musicians.
- Dzigbordi Habo̳bo̳.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Ewe (African people)--Music.
- Ghana--Dzodze.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 215 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 25 cm + 1 DVD (85 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Accompanying DVD, entitled Our music has become a divine spirit, ... "focus[es] on the lives and artistry of female performers in the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming troupe of Dzodze, a rural town in Ghana."--DVD notes, P. [196]-199.
- Contents:
- Daughters of the drum : the social environment of female artists in Dzodze
- The dance space : music associations, territories and events
- We are a communinty dance-drumming group : the Dzigbordi Habo̳bo̳ of Dzodze
- Doing it for everyone to see : the oral artistry of Dzigbordi in performance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-212) and index.
- Contains:
- Our music has become a divine spirit
- ISBN:
- 9780754664956
- 0754664953
- OCLC:
- 244627977
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