Difference between revisions of "Ghana 2008 syllabi"
(→Bibliography) |
(→Textbooks to download and print) |
||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
Note: these are long. You can download/print minimal pages, or the whole thing, or bring an electronic device allowing you to read without printing. | Note: these are long. You can download/print minimal pages, or the whole thing, or bring an electronic device allowing you to read without printing. | ||
| − | [http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca/~michaelf/GhanaDocs/Ghana%20country%20study.pdf Ghana country study] Download and print at least the | + | [http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca/~michaelf/GhanaDocs/Ghana%20country%20study.pdf Ghana country study] Download and print at least the Introduction and Chapter 1. Also available piecemeal [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ghtoc.html here]. |
[http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca/~michaelf/GhanaDocs/Ewe%20Basic%20Course%20(Warburton).pdf Ewe Basic Course] I will shortly have more information on which sections exactly we'll be covering. If you're interested you can download and print now, otherwise wait for further instructions. | [http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca/~michaelf/GhanaDocs/Ewe%20Basic%20Course%20(Warburton).pdf Ewe Basic Course] I will shortly have more information on which sections exactly we'll be covering. If you're interested you can download and print now, otherwise wait for further instructions. | ||
Revision as of 06:11, 12 May 2008
Contents
Bibliography
Textbooks to order in advance
John Collins - West African Pop Roots (Temple University Press, 1992).
John Chernoff - African Music, African Sensibility (University Of Chicago Press, 1981)
Kevin Shillington, History of Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Click here for textbooks to order in advance.
Textbooks to download and print
Note: these are long. You can download/print minimal pages, or the whole thing, or bring an electronic device allowing you to read without printing.
Ghana country study Download and print at least the Introduction and Chapter 1. Also available piecemeal here.
Ewe Basic Course I will shortly have more information on which sections exactly we'll be covering. If you're interested you can download and print now, otherwise wait for further instructions.
Readings to download and print, by course segment/professor
Professor J. H. Kwabena Nketia
The Problem of Meaning in African Music, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan., 1962), pp. 1-7
Musicology and Linguistics: Integrating the Phraseology of Text and Tune in the Creative Process, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 143-164
African Music and Western Praxis: A Review of Western Perspectives on African Musicology, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1986), pp. 36-56
The Intensity Factor in African Music, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 25, No. 1/2 (January 1988), pp. 53-86
The Study of African and Afro-American Music, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, The Black Perspective in Music, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1973), pp. 7-15
Professor John Collins
Professor William Anku
Circles and Time: A Theory of Structural Organization of Rhythm in African Music
Principles of Rhythmic integration in African drumming
Other
History of the Ewes, by DPhil Wisdom Agorde
My mother has a television, by Professor James Burns
