Women S Songs From West Africa
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Women s Songs from West Africa
Author | : Thomas A. Hale,Aissata G. Sidikou |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780253010216 |
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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 of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and beyond, the essays attest to the importance of women's contributions to the most widespread form of verbal art in Africa.
Women s Voices from West Africa
Author | : Aissata G. Sidikou,Thomas A. Hale |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-02-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780253356703 |
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Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale reveal the world of women's songs and singing in West Africa. This anthology—collected from 17 ethnic traditions across West Africa—introduces the power and beauty of the intimate expressions of African women. The songs, many translated here for the first time, reflect all stages of the life cycle and all walks of life. They entertain, give comfort and encouragement, and empower other women to face the challenges imposed on them by their families, men, and society. Women's Voices from West Africa opens a new window on women's changing roles in contemporary Africa.
Women Writing Africa
Author | : Esi Sutherland-Addy,Aminata Diaw |
Publsiher | : Feminist Press |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1558615008 |
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A major literary and scholarly work that transforms perceptions of West African women's history and culture.
Music in West Africa
Author | : Ruth M. Stone |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : UOM:39015061375443 |
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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 of the region's culture.
Songs in the Shade of the Cashew and Coconut Trees
Author | : Nathalie Soussana,Jean-Christophe Hoarau |
Publsiher | : Secret Mountain |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2019-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 2924774535 |
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Songs about children playing in the schoolyard, sisters braiding each other's hair at the beach, and parents dancing late into the night mesh together thanks to the music. A wide array of styles--nursery rhymes from Gabon, lullabies from Cape Verde, and rumbas from the Congo--are performed in more than a dozen languages. Luminous artwork and homegrown instruments round off this wonderful celebration of history, language, and culture. Lyrics appear in their original language and in English, along with notes on culture, a world map, and a code for song downloads and print-outs.
Searching for Sharing
Author | : Daniela Merolla,Mark Turin |
Publsiher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781783743216 |
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In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it. Expert contributors interweave sociological analysis with an appraisal of the transformative impact of technology on literary and cultural production. Does technology restrict, constraining the experience of an oral performance, or does it afford new openings for different aesthetic experiences? Topics explored include the Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library, the preservation of Ewe heritage material, new eresources for texts in Manding languages, and the possibilities of technauriture. This timely and necessary collection also examines to what extent digital documents can be and have been institutionalised in archives and museums, how digital heritage can remain free from co-option by hegemonic groups, and the roles that exist for community voices. A valuable contribution to a fast-developing field, this book is required reading for scholars and students in the fields of heritage, anthropology, linguistics, history and the emerging disciplines of multi-media documentation and analysis, as well as those working in the field of literature, folklore, and African studies. It is also important reading for museum and archive curators.
Song Walking
Author | : Angela Impey |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-11-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780226538150 |
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Song Walking explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey investigates contrasting accounts of this little-known geopolitical triangle, offsetting textual histories with the memories of a group of elderly women whose songs and everyday practices narrativize a century of borderland dynamics. Drawing evidence from women’s walking songs (amaculo manihamba)—once performed while traversing vast distances to the accompaniment of the European mouth-harp (isitweletwele)—she uncovers the manifold impacts of internationally-driven transboundary environmental conservation on land, livelihoods, and local senses of place. This book links ethnomusicological research to larger themes of international development, environmental conservation, gender, and local economic access to resources. By demonstrating that development processes are essentially cultural processes and revealing how music fits within this frame, Song Walking testifies to the affective, spatial, and economic dimensions of place, while contributing to a more inclusive and culturally apposite alignment between land and environmental policies and local needs and practices.
Muslim Women Sing
Author | : Beverly Blow Mack |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0253217296 |
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An intimate portrait of life and artistry among Hausa women singers.