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Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana

The Porcupine and the Gold Stool

By: Kwasi Ampene

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Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana

The Porcupine and the Gold Stool

By: Kwasi Ampene

Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana is a comprehensive portrait of Asante court musical arts. Weaving together historical narratives with analyses of texts performed on drums, ivory trumpets, and a cane flute, the book includes a critical assembly of ancient song texts, the poetry of bards (kwadwom), and referential poetry performed by members of the constabulary (apae). The focus is on the intersections between lived experience, music, and values, and refers to musical examples drawn from court ceremonies, rituals, festivals, as well as casual performances elicited in the course of fieldwork. For the Asante, the performing arts are complex sites for recording and storing personal experiences, and they have done so for centuries with remarkable consistency and self-consciousness. This book draws on archaeological, archival, historical, ethnographical and analytical sources to craft a view of the Asante experience as manifested in its musical and allied arts. Its goal is to privilege the voices of the Asante and how they express their history, religious philosophy, social values, economic, and political experiences through the musical and allied arts. The author’s theoretical formulation includes the concept of value, referring to ideas, worldview concepts, beliefs, and social relationships that inform musical practices and choices in Asante.

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Routledge

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1000060322

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9781000060324

West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities

An Ethnomusicological Perspective

By: George Worlasi Kwasi Dor

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West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities

An Ethnomusicological Perspective

By: George Worlasi Kwasi Dor

The first ethnomusicological study of the people who created a transnational connection in and through a world music culture

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325

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617039144

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9781617039140

Our Own Way in This Part of the World

Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation

By: Kwasi Konadu

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Our Own Way in This Part of the World

Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation

By: Kwasi Konadu

Kofi Dᴐnkᴐ was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and custodian of shared values for his Ghanaian community. In Our Own Way in This Part of the World Kwasi Konadu centers Dᴐnkᴐ's life story and experiences in a communography of Dᴐnkᴐ's community and nation from the late nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth, which were shaped by historical forces from colonial Ghana's cocoa boom to decolonization and political and religious parochialism. Although Dᴐnkᴐ touched the lives of thousands of citizens and patients, neither he nor they appear in national or international archives covering the region. Yet his memory persists in his intellectual and healing legacy, and the story of his community offers a non-national, decolonized example of social organization structured around spiritual forces that serves as a powerful reminder of the importance for scholars to take their cues from the lived experiences and ideas of the people they study.

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382

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Duke University Press

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1478005637

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9781478005636

Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana

The Porcupine and the Gold Stool

By: Kwasi Ampene

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The Porcupine and the Gold Stool

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Book's by Kwasi Ampene

Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana

Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana

West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities

West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities

Our Own Way in This Part of the World

Our Own Way in This Part of the World

Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana

Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana

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