Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (946 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226101622 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 500 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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textbook this is a text book plain and simple not something for a luthier to study. Phil Rogers said Encyclopedic in scope and clearly written. A couple of years back I was perusing the contents of production sampling CD's, hunting for African percussion sounds to write music with on my sampling keyboard. I kept coming across names for drums like "tatango", "sabar", "sabaro", "kutiriba", "kutirindingo", and so on. I wondered that the different names meant, and how are/were these instruments used together to generate music, either traditional-sounding or else a fusi. Mande Music St. Pete Mom This is an excellent source of information, if you want to expand your mind with new musical notions and information this is the book for you. This study of the west African Maninka music conducted by the Chicago eth. is excellenty. I highly recommend it.
With its maps, illustrations, and musical transcriptions as well as an exhaustive bibliography, discography, and videography, this book is essential reading for those seeking an in-depth look at one of the most exciting, innovative, and deep-rooted phenomena on the world music scene. He focuses on the four major spheres of Mande music—hunter's music, music of the jelis or griots, jembe and other drumming, and guitar-based modern music—exploring how each evolved, the types of instruments used, the major artists, and how each sphere relates to the others. Using resources as disparate as early Arabic travel accounts, oral histories, and archival research as well as his own extensive studies in Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and the Gambia, Charry traces this mu
2 (2001)"a superb descriptive job. It is also pleasant to readThe detailed documentation is animated throughout by his respect and admiration for a great musical tradition." -- Times Literary Supplement (June 29, 2001)"exhaustive . Charry's work should be an example for others to followa much-awaited addition to the study of West African musics, and will surely be an indispensable reference for many years to come." -- Research in African Literatures vol. an excellent and comprehensive model of the study of African music, this volume is a must for all students of African music and ethnomusicology." -- Choice.