James Burns

Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana (eBook, PDF)

Our Music Has Become a Divine Spirit

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

James Burns provides a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. Dzigbordi is part of a genre known as adekede, or female songs of redress, where women musicians critique gender relations in society. Burns uses audio and video i

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351567169
• Artikelnr.: 48802162

Autorenporträt

James Burns is an Assistant Professor of Music and Africana Studies at Binghamton University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: our music has become a divine spirit
Daughters of the drum
The dance space
We are a community dance-drumming group
Doing it for everyone to see
Glossary
Interviews
References
Index.