Fiddling in West Africa - Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures

Informationen zum Autor Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje Klappentext This detailed work helps the reader understand and appreciate three little-known musical cultures in West Africa and the fiddle's influence upon them. Zusammenfassung A study on fiddling in the Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba cultures of West Africa. This book not only explains the history of the instrument itself, but also discusses the processes of stylistic transference and adaptation, suggesting how these may have contributed to differing performance practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: A Master Fiddler and a Significant but Little-Known Tradition 1. Fiddling in West Africa: Understanding the Culture Area 2. An Affirmation of Identity: Fulbe Fiddling in Senegambia 3. Calling the Bori Spirits: Hausa Fiddling in Nigeria 4. In Service to the King: Dagbamba Fiddling in Ghana Conclusion Appendix: Distribution of the One-Stringed Fiddle Notes List of References Discography and Videography Index

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, DjeDje Jacqueline Cogdell
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2008
• EAN: 9780253219299
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21929-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries