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Author: Joseph S.Kaminski Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351956876 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 232
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Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral traditions, written accounts, archaeological evidence, transcriptions and linguistic analyses to situate the Asante trumpet tradition in historical culture. There are seven ivory trumpet ensembles in residence at the Asante Manhyia Palace in Kumase, and ivory trumpets are blown at every Akan court. The Asante trumpets, which are made from elephant tusks, are symbols of Asante strength and have an important role in Asante cosmology. Surrogate speech is performed via lipped tones through a tusk in praise of the Asante royal ancestors and the living Asante king. This book contains transcriptions and analyses of surrogate speech texts and their accompanying ensemble songs. When several ensembles play simultaneously as a representation of power, they make staggered entrances, beginning separate songs in order. This results in a simultaneous performance of separate songs. This phenomenon, which Kaminski has termed 'sound-barrage', is an ancient aesthetic, and is performed to protect the kingdom and the ancestors. It is both spiritual and acoustical. This 'sound barrage' is believed to act in the metaphysical world, dispelling evil spirits from court rituals, ancestor venerations, and funerals, for there is a spirit in the sound.
Author: Joseph S.Kaminski Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351956876 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral traditions, written accounts, archaeological evidence, transcriptions and linguistic analyses to situate the Asante trumpet tradition in historical culture. There are seven ivory trumpet ensembles in residence at the Asante Manhyia Palace in Kumase, and ivory trumpets are blown at every Akan court. The Asante trumpets, which are made from elephant tusks, are symbols of Asante strength and have an important role in Asante cosmology. Surrogate speech is performed via lipped tones through a tusk in praise of the Asante royal ancestors and the living Asante king. This book contains transcriptions and analyses of surrogate speech texts and their accompanying ensemble songs. When several ensembles play simultaneously as a representation of power, they make staggered entrances, beginning separate songs in order. This results in a simultaneous performance of separate songs. This phenomenon, which Kaminski has termed 'sound-barrage', is an ancient aesthetic, and is performed to protect the kingdom and the ancestors. It is both spiritual and acoustical. This 'sound barrage' is believed to act in the metaphysical world, dispelling evil spirits from court rituals, ancestor venerations, and funerals, for there is a spirit in the sound.
Author: Kwasi Ampene Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000060322 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 281
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Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana is a comprehensive portrait of Asante court musical arts. Weaving together historical narratives with analyses of texts performed on drums, ivory trumpets, and a cane flute, the book includes a critical assembly of ancient song texts, the poetry of bards (kwadwom), and referential poetry performed by members of the constabulary (apae). The focus is on the intersections between lived experience, music, and values, and refers to musical examples drawn from court ceremonies, rituals, festivals, as well as casual performances elicited in the course of fieldwork. For the Asante, the performing arts are complex sites for recording and storing personal experiences, and they have done so for centuries with remarkable consistency and self-consciousness. This book draws on archaeological, archival, historical, ethnographical and analytical sources to craft a view of the Asante experience as manifested in its musical and allied arts. Its goal is to privilege the voices of the Asante and how they express their history, religious philosophy, social values, economic, and political experiences through the musical and allied arts. The author’s theoretical formulation includes the concept of value, referring to ideas, worldview concepts, beliefs, and social relationships that inform musical practices and choices in Asante.
Author: Tamara Enomoto Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 9956553263 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 415
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In 2018 South Africa's so-called "mother city", Cape Town came into the global spotlight as being the first city in the world to (almost) "run out of water," a crisis that only exacerbated the pressures placed upon a population staggering under socio-economic and politically-tinged environmental predicaments. Japan on the other hand has long sustained an international reputation for the massive scale of natural and anthropocentric crises its people have faced, overcome, and succumbed to. The most recent (pre-Pandemic) occurrence of which being the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima Daiima nuclear plant accident. What comes to mind when Japan, South Africa, and the notion of resilience are mentioned in the same utterance? Well, considering how societies respond to disaster, (man-made and natural), Japan and South Africa feature high on many lists both for our triumphs and our failures to account for the most vulnerable among us in moments of catastrophe. This edited volume draws on transdisciplinary perspectives and multi-sited research to reflect on the high stakes involved when people are expected to repeatedly survive crisis. The authors take "resilience" as a contested yet generative lens through which to examine some of the most salient questions of our time. Culled from two seemingly disparate geopolitical locales, the insights offered here are hauntingly connected, shedding light on questions of collective and individual responses to calamity - questions that, in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic, are now urgently being grappled with by everyone, everywhere.
Author: Joseph S. Kaminski Publisher: ISBN: 9780542787447 Category : Ashanti (African people) Languages : en Pages : 752
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This dissertation is based on fieldwork on the Asante ivory trumpets in the Republic of Ghana. The seven ivory trumpet ensembles of the Asantehene are the ntahera, the kwakwrannya, the mme&dotbelow;ntia, the nkontwema, the amoakwa , the nkrawobe&dotbelow;n, and the nkofe . The trumpets are made from elephant tusks. The dissertation places the Asante ivory trumpet tradition in historical and cultural contexts and examines ensemble structures and musical logistics. Most of the sources are derived from interviews, field recordings, transcriptions, and analyses. The data are corroborated with oral traditions and written, archaeological, and linguistic accounts. The diversity of the Asantehene's ivory trumpet ensembles serves as a political symbol and sustains Asante hegemony. When several ensembles play simultaneously to represent his power, they make staggered entrances beginning songs, and eventually result in a simultaneous performance of separate songs wherein a "sound-barrage" is created. Sound-barrage is based on an Akan aesthetic of "energy level and intensity factor," wherein gradations of intensity are achieved on the staggered energy levels. The culmination of sonic energy rises to its highest level, and each ensemble is an exponent in the factor. The energy has been believed to be a spiritual phenomenon that dispels pestilent spirits from the environs, so the people may commune with the ancestors. While this spiritually protective principle underlying the poly-ensemble aesthetic exists, the sound-barrage is the threshold between Asante secular and sacred experience. Medieval European illustrations of ivory trumpet-blowing angels have appeared numerously in manuscripts of The Apocalypse as commented upon by the 8th century Spanish monk Beatus de Liebana, whose work was influenced by an earlier manuscript by Tyconius of Carthage, which dates from c.380-385. The influence of the earlier Tyconius manuscript indicates ivory trumpet ensembles in Carthage as early as the 4 th century CE, played within the context of sound barrage, making Asante ivory trumpets a long standing tradition found elsewhere in the ancient world.
Author: Murray Forman Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415969192 Category : Hip-hop Languages : en Pages : 652
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Spanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.
Author: Kwasi Ampene Publisher: Maize Books ISBN: 9781607853664 Category : Ashanti (African people) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Engaging Modernity is the definitive history of Asante royal regalia and music ensembles. This second edition includes an ethnographical account of the 2014 Asanteman Grand Adae festival that prominently features the complex heritage of the visual and the performing arts in motion. Ampene's contextual account illuminates the historical narratives the regalia objects render as they move through space and time, as well as the metalanguage embodied in the objects and the symbolic language they convey in Akanland. The book combines text with over three hundred color photographs to construct subtle and nuanced views of the material culture associated with Asante royal court in the twenty-first century. Engaging Modernity is an essential and a vast transdisciplinary resource for the humanities and beyond.
Author: Kofi Agawu Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190263202 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 389
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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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Author: Joseph S. Kaminski
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