Composition in Africa and the diaspora
Subtitle: autobiographical discourse on music compositional creativity : context of African dynamism in music composition
By: Akin Euba & Cynthia Tse Kimberlin, editors
Publisher: MRI Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pt. Richmond [Port Richmond] CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781933459011
Subjects: Composition (Music); Music; History and criticism; Black people
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: v. 1.; title: The compositional style of Robert Mawuena Kwami : 1973-82  -- by Robert Mawuena Kwami; title: Three musings of Kyekye : a case for Ghanaian gyil music as a basis for African pianism  -- by Paul W. Humphreys; title: Selected art songs of Wallace McClain Cheatham  -- by Wallace McClain Cheatham; title: A view from within  -- by Nathan Davis; title: This building is going to fly : Halim El-Dabh and the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center  -- by Denise A. Seachrist; title: The choral arrangements and performance practice of Arthur Kemoli  -- by Jean Ngoya Kidula; title: Is modern African art music a re-packaged re-manifestation of 19th century style colonial soirees? : the Musical Society of Nigeria as a case in point  -- by Paul Konye; title: J.H. Kwabena Nketia and the African avant-garde -- by Akin Euba