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The African imagination in music / Kofi Agawu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agawu, V. Kofi (Victor Kofi), author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Africa--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music and globalization--Africa.
- Music and globalization.
- Africa--Social life and customs.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (389 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The African Imagination in Music offers a fresh introduction to the vast and complex world of Sub-Saharan African music. Through close readings of traditional music and references to popular music, Agawu considers topics including the place of music in society, musical instruments, language and music, and appropriations of African music.
- Contents:
- Music and/in society
- Musical instruments
- Language and/in music
- The rhythmic imagination
- The melodic imagination
- The formal imagination
- Harmony, or simultaneous doing
- Appropriating African music.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references, discographies and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-046744-4
- 0-19-026323-7
- 0-19-026322-9
- OCLC:
- 947854675
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