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| Title | : | Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana: Our Music Has Become a Divine Spirit (SOAS Musicology Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0754664953 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 234 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
"For historians and lovers of drumming" according to M. Burns. A spectacular chronicle of female dancing and drumming. This is a unique culture that has not been chronicled well enough.Thanks to Mr. Burns, the beautiful music and culture of this community is being shared with the rest of the world.. Poor quality printing undermines the value of this book I have just received this book from Amazon in the mail. 50 pages of it are of very poor print quality, making it hard to read. Returning to it to Amazon at my own cost makes it hardly worth it. Very disappointed.
'Burns' study significantly contributes to the scholarly understanding of Ewe expressive culture.' Journal of Folklore Research ' a significant contribution to the fields of ethnomusicology, African studies and women's and gender studies. Its clarity of language, ethnographic depth, and effective use of musical transcriptions and video illustrations make it an excellent addition to the literature on West African music.' African Studies Review 'The DVD offers a window that makes the text far more accessible this book will be of interest to anyone engaged with West-African dance-drumming (with the video enabling more examination of the dance than is often the case), through to more general interests in the way that traditions are being re-created and updated, accessing under-represented musical creativity by women, and general concerns about the role and dialogue produced by a
James Burns is an Assistant Professor of Music and Africana Studies at Binghamton University, USA.
This perspective encompasses the inter-linkages between history, social processes and individual creative artists. Dzigbordi was specifically chosen because of the author's long association with the group members, and because it is part of a genre known as adekede, or female songs of redress, where women musicians critique gender relations in society. James Burns redresses this deficiency through a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. Ewe dance-drumming has been exte
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