Africa; Its Music & Its People - Softcover

Thiam, Ed. D. Pascal Bokar; Seck, Magueye

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798885900539

Verlag: Palmetto Publishing, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

PRAISE FOR AFRICA; ITS MUSIC & ITS PEOPLE ... A respected performer, educator, Dr. Pascal Bokar Thiam has played with the best of them: Dizzy Gillespie, Donald Byrd and others...his knowledge of Africa's music and culture is just as extensive as his knowledge for the music of America. And he shows us that it is one music. - Teodross Avery, DMA. Music Department, California State University Dominguez Hills, CA As a fine artist and clinical psychologist, this book is truly a revelation to the true meaning of art, music and life. I strongly recommend to everyone the book Africa; Its Music and Its People... - Alioune Cissokho, MFA, Ph.D. Northeastern University, Boston, MA Accomplished Malian and Senegalese musician and intellectual Dr. Pascal Bokar Thiam decolonizes the vast musical histories of the African continent with indigenous and Africa-centered perspectives of their enduring cultural, political, and economic relevance... In the tradition of scholar/musicians like free jazz pioneer and author George E. Lewis, Dr. Thiam's work not only offers a decolonizing insider perspective, but it swings with the power of a work written from the heart and soul. - Nicholas Baham III, Ph.D. Professor & Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies, Cal State East Bay, CA

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Pascal Bokar Thiam, Ed.D. is on faculty in the Performing Arts & Social Justice Department of the University of San Francisco and the Music Department of City College of San Francisco, CA. He has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Donald Byrd, Donald Bailey, Donald Brown etc...His CD Guitar Balafonics received Downbeat Magazine "One of the Best CDs of the Year" Award. The British Press Essex TV calls him the "Father of the AfroBlueGrazz Sound" exemplified in his new CD titled American Trails. Pascal Bokar is the 2021 Recipient of the Jazz Road Award from Southarts, NEA, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palmetto Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798885900539
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland