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Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions
Kofi Agawu
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Description for Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions
Paperback. Offers a critique of discourse about African music. This work offers a look at the history of African music scholarship. It offers an alternative "Afro-centric" means of understanding African music, and in doing so, describes a different mode of creativity beyond the usual provenance of Western criticism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; AVA; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
436g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415943901
SKU
V9780415943901
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Reviews for Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions
At times frankly informative, at times darkly ironic, and at times passionately earnest, Representing African Music reads like a resource text, satire, and manifesto all at once...[offers a] trenchant critique of otherwise neutral-seeming representations of African music.. makes many daring statements and reaches a series of alarming conclusions...Those in search of a genuinely global musical discourse...could do much worse than ... Read more