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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
V Kofi Agawu |
ISBN: | 9780190263201 0190263202 9780190263218 0190263210 9780190263232 0190263237 |
OCLC Number: | 912045418 |
Awards: | Winner of Co-winner of the 2018 Kwabena Nketia Book Award, awarded by the African Music Section. |
Description: | x, 372 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm |
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. |
Series Title: | Oxford scholarship online. |
Responsibility: | by Kofi Agawu. |
Abstract:
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.
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