Representing African music postcolonial notes, queries, positions.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York Routledge 2003Description: XXII, 266 p. illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415943892
  • 0415943906
Subject(s):
Contents:
Colonialism's impact -- The archive -- The invention of "African rhythm" -- Polymeter, additive rhythm, and other enduring myths -- African music as text -- Popular music defended against its devotees -- Contesting difference -- How not to analyze African music -- The ethics of representation.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
book Library of Etnomusicology 116.590 EM Available 7354461-10

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and index.

Colonialism's impact -- The archive -- The invention of "African rhythm" -- Polymeter, additive rhythm, and other enduring myths -- African music as text -- Popular music defended against its devotees -- Contesting difference -- How not to analyze African music -- The ethics of representation.