Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 780.966
EAN: 9780195145007
ISBN: 0195145003
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: August 05, 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 127978
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
This book introduces the musical traditions of West Africa and discusses the diversity, motifs, and structure of West African music within the larger patterns of the region's culture. Drawing upon the author's extensive fieldwork, it explores how the music's complex rhythmic combinations in fast-paced patterns and quick, tightly orchestrated movements influence how West Africans understand themselves and their culture.




Rating: - The foundations of regional West African sound
Ruth Stone provides a narrowed and scholarly focus in chapters which consider call and response patterns, layered tones in vocal structures, and underlying polyrhythms, using specific quotes and examples from Liberia's Kpelle performers.
Intended as a case-study volume for college-level users referencing the Global Music Series master volume THINKING MUSICALLY.

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Rating: - Parts and wholes
This is an initial impression, after having read this short paperback in the last few hours. First, the various titles in this series (Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture) seem directed at very different audiences with very different levels of musical sophistication, in spite of the uniformity implied by the grouping as a series. The volumes Music in South India (or Music in North India), for instance, could be used with music majors in college, while the present volume and its companion volume ... Read More

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