Representing African Music | Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions

Kofi Agawu

ISBN 10: 0415943906 / ISBN 13: 9780415943901

Published by Routledge, 2003

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Representing African Music | Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions | Kofi Agawu | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2003 | Routledge | EAN 9780415943901 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Representing African Music | Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415943906
• ISBN 13: 9780415943901
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 16D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 424 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Kofi Agawu