Ghana 2008 syllabi
Contents
Lecture schedule
West African Music Ensemble (Music x44)
Meets Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday afternoons from 3:00 to 5:30, at the drum station under the trees behind the Department of Music.
Introduction to Ethnomusicology: The ethnomusicology of Ghanaian music and dance (Music 365)
Meets 9:30 to 11:00, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, from June 16 to July 10, in the Computer LAB (School of Performing Arts)
- June 16: Prof. Nketia, Introduction to Music of Ghana
- June 17,18,19: Prof. Collins: Popular Music and Ghanaian history
- June 23, 24, 25, 26: Prof. Zabana Kongo: African art music; music analysis; music composition, popular music of Central Africa
- June 30, July 1: Prof. Asiama: Akan music (hunters' music, funeral music)
- July 2, 3: Prof. Fiagbedzi: Ewe music and aesthetics
- July 7, 8, 9, 10: Prof. Anku: African rhythm
- July 12-27 (Dagbamete village): Prof. Frishkopf: fieldwork component; Prof. Dunyo: Ewe musical performance.
West African culture, language, and society (Middle Eastern and African Studies 300)
Meets 11:30 to 1:00, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, from June 16 to July 10. Place to be determined.
- June 16 Mon-Ewe Language Class-Prof. Alex Dzameshie
June 17 Tue-Socio-Linguistics-Prof Alex Dzameshie June18 Wed-History of Ghana-Prof Addo Fenning June 19 Thurs-Political Development in Ghana-Seth Ablosu.
June 23 Mon-Ewe Language Class-Prof. Dzameshie June 24 Tues.-Socio-Linguistics-Prof. Alex Dzameshie June25 Wed-Slave Trade in Ghana.Dr Akosua Perbi June 26 Thurs-Theater Arts in Ghana-Dr Mohammed Abdallah.
June 30 Mon-Ewe language Class-Prof Alex Dzameshie July 1 Tues-Socio-linguistics-Prof Alex Dzameshie July 2 Wed-Slave Trade in West Africa-Dr Akosua Perbi July 3 Thurs-Theater Arts in Ghana-Dr Mohammed Abdallah
July 7 Mon Ewe Language Class-Prof .Alex Dzameshie July 8 Tues-Socio-Linguistics-Prof. Alex Dzameshie July 9 Wed- Africa Literature-Prof Kofi Anyidoho July 10 Thurs- Traditional/Contemporary Religion in Ghana-Rev.Prof. Elorm Dovlo
- July 12-27 (Dagbamete village): Prof. Frishkopf: fieldwork component; Prof. Dunyo: Ewe culture.
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
