Turn Up the Volume!: A Celebration of African Music,9780930741761

Turn Up the Volume!: A Celebration of African Music

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ISBN13: 9780930741761
ISBN10: 0930741765
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-11-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Washington Pr
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Table of Contents

Foreword 11(1)
Introduction 12(8)
Part One: Music in African Life
African and African American Lamellophones: History, Typology, Nomenclature, Performers, and Intracultural Concepts
20(38)
Gerhard Kubik
West Africa: When the Xylophone Speaks
58(10)
Heather A. Maxwell
African Traditional Musical Instruments in Neo-African Idioms and Contexts
68(10)
Akin Euba
Ritual, Lore, and Music in the Pre-Islamic Vai Funerary Sequence
78(12)
Lester P. Monts
Ingolole: Then We Shall See
90(8)
Jean Ngoya Kidula
The Fulbe Fiddle in The Gambia: A Symbol of Ethnic Identity
98(16)
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
The Luna Drum as Social Mediator among the Dagbamba of Ghana
114(10)
Leigh Creighton
Make Army Tanks for War into Church Bells for Peace: Observations on Musical Change and Other Adaptations in Ethiopia during the 1990s
124(10)
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin
Part Two: Africa and the Diaspora: Cross-Cultural Influences
The Lyre of the Arab Gulf: Historical Roots, Geographical Links, and the Local Context
134(6)
All Jihad Racy
``Tum Up the Volume!'' The African Aesthetic in Trinidad's Carnival Music
140(18)
Ernest D. Brown Jr.
The Voice of Ginen: Drums in Haitian Religion, History, and Identity
158(12)
Victoria Simmons
The African Legacy: The Use of Music and Musical Instruments in the Candomble Religion of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
170(12)
Clarence Bernard Henry
Ethnomusicology and the Study of Africanisms in the Music of Latin America
182(4)
Kazadi wa Mukuna
Reflections on Eli Owens's Mouth-Bow: African American One-Stringed Instrumental Traditions and Their African Backgrounds
186(8)
Gerhard Kubik
Africa and Jazz: The Melo-Rhythmic Essence of Warren ``Baby'' Dodds
194(16)
Eddie S. Meadows
Musical Collages of Sound: Technologizing the Band in the Rap Music Tradition
210(10)
Cheryl L. Keyes
The Introduction as Signature: An Analysis of Western Musical Instruments in Chimurenga, Mbaqanga, and Motown
220(10)
Kimasi L. Browne
The Role of the Gumbe in Popular Music and Dance Styles in Sierra Leone
230(6)
Christian Dowu Jayeola Horton
Part Three: Catalog 236(102)
Notes to the Text 338(12)
References Cited 350

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