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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: 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: Kofi Agawu Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190467444 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 320
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The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values upon which it rests. Agawu leads his readers through an exploration of the traditions, structural elements, instruments, and performative techniques that characterize the music. In sections that focus upon rhythm, melody, form, and harmony, the essential parts of African music come into relief. While traditional music, the backbone of Africa's musical thinking, receives the most attention, Agawu also supplies insights into popular and art music in order to demonstrate the breadth of the African musical imagination. Close readings of a variety of songs, including an Ewe dirge, an Aka children's song, and Fela's 'Suffering and Smiling' supplement the broader discussion. The African Imagination in Music foregrounds a hitherto under-reported legacy of recordings and insists on the necessity of experiencing music as sound in order to appreciate and understand it fully. Accordingly, a Companion Website features important examples of the music discussed in detail in the book. Accessibly and engagingly written for a general audience, The African Imagination in Music is poised to renew interest in Black African music and to engender discussion of its creative underpinnings by Africanists, ethnomusicologists, music theorists and musicologists.
Author: AA. VV. Publisher: Viella Libreria Editrice ISBN: 8867286919 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 145
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Author: Paul Schauert Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253017491 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 364
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The Ghana Dance Ensemble takes Ghana's national culture and interprets it in performance using authentic dance forms adapted for local or foreign audiences. Often, says Paul Schauert, the aims of the ensemble and the aims of the individual performers work in opposition. Schauert discusses the history of the dance troupe and its role in Ghana's post-independence nation-building strategy and illustrates how the nation's culture makes its way onto the stage. He argues that as dancers negotiate the terrain of what is or is not authentic, they also find ways to express their personal aspirations, discovering, within the framework of nationalism or collective identity, that there is considerable room to reform national ideals through individual virtuosity.
Author: John Parker Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691214905 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 412
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An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuries In My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortuary cultures and the relationship between the living and the dead over a four-hundred-year period spanning the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Parker considers many questions from the African historical perspective, including why people die and where they go after death, how the dead are buried and mourned to ensure they continue to work for the benefit of the living, and how perceptions and experiences of death and the ends of life have changed over time. From exuberant funeral celebrations encountered by seventeenth-century observers to the brilliantly conceived designer coffins of the late twentieth century, Parker shows that the peoples of Ghana have developed one of the world’s most vibrant cultures of death. He explores the unfolding background of that culture through a diverse range of issues, such as the symbolic power of mortal remains and the dominion of hallowed ancestors, as well as the problem of bad deaths, vile bodies, and vengeful ghosts. Parker reconstructs a vast timeline of death and the dead, from the era of the slave trade to the coming of Christianity and colonial rule to the rise of the modern postcolonial nation. With an array of written and oral sources, In My Time of Dying richly adds to an understanding of how the dead continue to weigh on the shoulders of the living.
Author: Damascus Kafumbe Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1580469043 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 181
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Examines how the Kawuugulu Clan-Royal Musical Ensemble uses musical performance and storytelling to manage, structure, model, and legitimize power relations among the Baganda people of south-central Uganda.
Author: Allen Scott Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253014565 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 518
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Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional musicians, and as an aid for librarians. The introductory chapter includes a comprehensive list of bibliographical terms with definitions; bibliographic terms in German, French, and Italian; and the plan of the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal music classification systems. Integrating helpful commentary to instruct the reader on the scope and usefulness of specific items, this updated and expanded edition accounts for the rapid growth in new editions of standard works, in fields such as ethnomusicology, performance practice, women in music, popular music, education, business, and music technology. These enhancements to its already extensive bibliographies ensures that the Sourcebook will continue to be an indispensable reference for years to come.
Author: Victoria Barnett-Woods Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000055671 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 237
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Cultural Economies explores the dynamic intersection of material culture and transatlantic formations of "capital" in the long eighteenth century. It brings together two cutting-edge fields of inquiry—Material Studies and Atlantic Studies—into a generative collection of essays that investigate nuanced ways that capital, material culture, and differing transatlantic ideologies intersected. This ambitious, provocative work provides new interpretive critiques and methodological approaches to understanding both the material and the abstract relationships between humans and objects, including the objectification of humans, in the larger current conversation about capitalism and inevitably power, in the Atlantic world. Chronologically bracketed by events in the long-eighteenth century circum-Atlantic, these essays employ material case studies from littoral African states, to abolitionist North America, to Caribbean slavery, to medicinal practice in South America, providing both broad coverage and nuanced interpretation. Holistically, Cultural Economies demonstrates that the eighteenth-century Atlantic world of capital and materiality was intimately connected to both large and small networks that inform the hemispheric and transatlantic geopolitics of capital and nation of the present day.
Author: Joseph S.Kaminski
Author: Joseph S.Kaminski
Author: Kwasi Ampene
Author: Joseph S. Kaminski
Author: Kofi Agawu
Author: AA. VV.
Author: Paul Schauert
Author: John Parker
Author: Damascus Kafumbe
Author: Allen Scott
Author: Victoria Barnett-Woods