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Fiddling in West Africa : touching the spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba cultures / Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Africa, West--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Fiddling--Africa, West.
- Fiddling.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Touching the spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba cultures
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fiddling has had a lengthy history in Africa that has been long ignored. DjeDje corrects this oversight with an expansive study on fiddling in the Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba cultures of West Africa.
- Contents:
- Introduction : A master fiddler and a significant but little-known tradition
- Fiddling in West Africa : understanding the culture area
- An affirmation of identity : Fulbe fiddling in Senegambia
- Calling the Bori spirits : Hausa fiddling in Nigeria
- In service to the king : Dagbamba fiddling in Ghana.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318), discography (p. [319]-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612065804
- 9781282065802
- 1282065807
- 9780253000095
- 0253000092
- OCLC:
- 261447865
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb31647 hdl
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