Representing African Music - Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Colonialism's Impact 2. The Archive 3. The Invention of African Rhythm 4. Polymeter, Additive Rhythm, and Other Enduring Myths 5. African Music as Text 6. Popular Music Defended Against its Devotees 7. Contesting Difference 8. How Not to Analyze African Music 9. The Ethics of Representation Epilogue References

About the author

Kofi Agawu

Summary

Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? To what orders of authority do scholars appeal? This study aims to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music.

Product details

• Authors: Kofi Agawu, Agawu Kofi
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2003
• EAN: 9780415943895
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94389-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 690 g
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / General, The arts: general issues, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, MUSIC / Ethnic, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, The arts: general topics