| The Garland Handbook of African Music [With CD] Contributor(s): Stone, Ruth M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415961025 ISBN-13: 9780415961028 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $90.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: The Garland Handbook of African Music, Second Edition is a smaller textbook version of the comprehensive Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 1, Africa (1998). It is intended for undergraduate and graduate area studies courses in music, ethnomusicology, and anthropology. Like the original volume, its division into three sections (Introduction to Africa as a Musical Area, Issues and Processes in African Musics, and Music Cultures and Regions) enables students and their professors to cover a thorough range of material about African music within one text. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Ethnic - Music | History & Criticism - General - Music | Reference |
| Dewey: 780.96 |
| LCCN: 2007047402 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 8.02" W x 9.95" (2.08 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Garland Handbook of African Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa, (1997). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Africa and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. Part One provides an in-depth introduction to Africa. Part Two focuses on issues and processes, such as notation and oral tradition, dance in communal life, and intellectual property. Part Three focuses on the different regions, countries, and cultures of Africa with selected regional case studies. The second edition has been expanded to include exciting new scholarship that has been conducted since the first edition was published. Questions for Critical Thinking at the end of each major section guide and focus attention on what musical and cultural issues arise when one studies the music of Africa -- issues that might not occur in the study of other musics of the world. An accompanying audio compact disc offers musical examples of some of the music of Africa. |