Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions - Softcover

Agawu, Kofi

 
9780415943901: Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415943906 ISBN 13: 9780415943901
Verlag: Routledge, 2003

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The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is an agreed-upon meaning, but African music signifies differently to different people. This book also poses the question then, "What is African music?" Agawu offers a new and provocative look at the history of African music scholarship that will resonate with students of ethnomusicology and post-colonial studies. He offers an alternative "Afro-centric" means of understanding African music, and in doing so, illuminates a different mode of creativity beyond the usual provenance of Western criticism. This book will undoubtedly inspire heated debate--and new thinking--among musicologists, cultural theorists, and post-colonial thinkers. Also includes 15 musical examples.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0415943906
ISBN 13 
9780415943901
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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