Ghana 2008 syllabi
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 ordering information.
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 Chapters 1 & 2. 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 even print the whole thing now, otherwise wait for further instructions.
Articles 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
The reasons for teaching African popular music studies at University
Professor William Anku
Circles and Time: A Theory of Structural Organization of Rhythm in African Music
Principles of Rhythmic integration in African drumming
Professor Zabana Kongo
Creative Ethnomusicology (Euba)
Other
History of the Ewes, by DPhil Wisdom Agorde
My mother has a television, by Professor James Burns
