Music in East Africa : experiencing music, expressing culture
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Music in East Africa : experiencing music, expressing culture
(Global music series / general editors, Bonnie C. Wade and Patricia Shehan Campbell)
Oxford University Press, 2004
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes index
Resources (reading, listening) : p. 126-135
Description and Table of Contents
Description
These captivating case studies include eyewitness accounts of performances, interviews with performers, and vivid illustrations. Each volume is packaged with a 70-minute CD that contains representative examples of the music discussed in the book.
Ngoma is the hallmark of music in East Africa and a performance that incorporates drumming, singing, and dancing. Using several towns and villages as examples, this case study discusses how Ngoma performances function as important means of mediating conflicts, solidifying community and ethnicity, and communicating traditional values and social histories.
Table of Contents
Forward:
Preface:
CD Track List:
1. Heating Up!
East Africa
Traditional Music Performance: The Example of Ngoma
What is "Music" in East Africa?
Greetings
Conclusion
2. Traditional Performances in Two Villages and a Town
Introduction
Case Study #1: Nyanhugi Village, Sukumaland, Tanzania
Case Study #2: Bugwere Village, Busoga Region, Eastern Uganda
Case Study #3: Kisumu Town, Western Kenya
Musical Transcription:
Gender and Traditional Music Performance in East Africa
Conclusion
3. Fostering Social Cohesion: Competition and Traditional Musical Performance
Introduction: Competition as Social Cohesion
Case Study #1: Bulabo in Sukumaland, Tanzania
Bufumu
Bagaalu and Bagiika Dance Societies
Samba
Changes and Adaption in Bulabo
Case Study #2: Choir Competitions in Dar es Salaam
Vignette 1: The Initial Evangelical Encounter
Vignette 2: The Emergence of Tanzanian Voices
Vignette 3: A Postcolonial Moment
Conclusion
4. Individuals in East African Musical Worlds: Gideon Mdegella and Centurio Balikoowa
Introduction
Vignette 1: Gideon Mdegella
Vignette 2: Centurio Balikoowa
Communities and Musical Specialists
Gideon Mdegella: "Mwalimu"
Mwalimu wa Kwaya: Ritual-Musical Specialists in the Tanzanian Luteran Church
"I Am Able to See Very Far, but I Am Unable to Reach There":
Mdegella and "First-Class Music":
Centurio Balikoowa
Background:
Musical Instruments:
Endere (Flute)
Endingidi (Tubefiddle)
Construction of the Endingidi
Ntongooli (Bowl Lyre)
Personal History:
Conclusion
5. Situating Traditional Music within Modernity
Introduction
Vignette: Anthems and Identity
Case Study #1: Mu Kkubo Ery 'Omusaalaba
Basic Tenets of Kiganda Traditional Music:
Issue of Timbre:
Drumming:
Issue of Interlocking Patterns:
Case Study #2: "The Roots of Benga"
D.O. Misiani, the "King" of Benga
Conclusion: Popular versus Traditional--"Modernity Happened!"
6. Cooling Down!
Introduction
Traditional Music and the Interrelation of the Arts in East Africa
Glossary:
Resources:
Index:
by "Nielsen BookData"