The African imagination in music
By: Kofi Agawu
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780190263201; 9780190263218
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Social life and customs; Musical instruments; Music; Blacks; Music and globalization; History and criticism; African influences
Notes: "About the companion website": page xi.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-363), discography (pages 335-342), videography (pages 343-344), and index.
Table of contents: title: Music and/in society; title: Musical instruments; title: Language and/in music; title: The rhythmic imagination; title: The melodic imagination; title: The formal imagination; title: Harmony, or simultaneous doing; title: Appropriating African music.