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Music in West Africa
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: Ruth M. Stone
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This book introduces the musical traditions of West Africa and discusses the diversity, motifs, and structure of West African music within the larger patterns o
Djoliba Crossing
Language: en
Pages: 182
Authors: Dave Kobrenski
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-12 - Publisher: Artemisia Books

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Take a journey into the heart of West Africa... Artist, musician, and author Dave Kobrenski takes the reader on a musical and visual journey up the Djoliba rive
Musicmakers of West Africa
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: John Collins
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

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Introducing the development of West African popular music, this text begins with a discussion of the early Highlife bands. It then traces the growth and diversi
Women's Songs from West Africa
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Thomas A. Hale
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-02 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding o
Highlife Music in West Africa
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Sonny Oti
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: African Books Collective

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Highlife Music in West Africa is an excursion into the origins and development of an extraordinary music form. Highlife music is essentially an urban music, but