Resiliency and distinction
Subtitle: beliefs, endurance and creativity in the musical arts of continental and diasporic Africa : a Festschrift in honor of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
By: Kimasi L. Browne and Jean N. Kidula, editors
Publisher: Music Research Institute, MRI Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Point Richmond, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781933459066
Subjects: Blacks; Music; History and criticism; African diaspora
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bowing the intellectual heartstring of continental and diasporic Africa / Kimasi L. Browne; title: The minimalist impulse in African musical creativity / Kofi Agawu; title: Pride and prejudice / Ray A. Briggs; title: Unspeakable joy! / Kimasi L. Browne; title: Welcome to the United States of Africa / Abimbola Cole; title: Havana / Valerie Dickerson Cordero; title: Folkloric performance as simulacrum / Kevin M. Delgado; title: Musical and institutional mediation of identities and spaces by the Ghana Methodist Church Choirs Association in North America / George Worlasi Kwasi Dor; title: Drums, drumming, and the sacred sounds of silence in the Ga community of Accra, Ghana, West Africa / Clarence Bernard Henry; title: Old school worship / Birgitta J. Johnson; title: Of spirituals and songs of the spirit / Jean N. Kidula; title: A glimpse into the past / Cynthia Tse Kimberlin; title: The kiluka chordophones / James K. Makubuya; title: Duke Ellington and world jazz composition / Eddie S. Meadows; title: How artists create enduring traditions / Brian Schrag; title: Testimonials.