Ghana 2008 syllabi
Click here for textbooks to order in advance.
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)
Readings to download, 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
