Music in West Africa: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Contents

• Preface:
• CD List:
• 1. Traveling to West Africa
• Journeys
• Tools
• West Africa in Perspective
• Music in the Arts and Life
• Style Areas
• Ideas about Performance
• Musical Instruments
• Resources
• 2. Performance Facets
• Vocal Facets in Epic Performance
• Instrumental Facets in Horn Ensemble Performance
• Continity in Performance: Woni Ensemble
• Vocal and Instrumental Facets in Bush Clearing Songs
• Parallels in the Arts
• Faceting: Cutting off the Edge
• Cloth Pattern
• Masks and Carved Figures
• Greeting Sequences
• Obscuring Facets
• 3. Voices: Layered Tone Colors
• Timbre in African Music
• Instruments: The Sounds of a Triangular Frame-Zither
• The Centrality of the Voice
• Instruments: Musical Bow
• Sound Texture in Epic
• Social Resonance
• Instruments: Inanga and the Whispered Song
• Other Timbral Dimensions of Sound
• Symbolic Associations of Tone Color
• Cloth Color
• 4. Part-Counterpart: Call and Response
• Call and Response Variations
• Non-Overlapping Call and Reponse
• Rice Planting Song:
• Children's Counting Song:
• Kpelle Rubber Camp Music:
• Entertainment Love Song:
• Overlapping Call and Response
• Musical Dramatic Folktale (Chante Fable):
• Epic Performance:
• Dialogic Relationships
• Relation to Resonance
• Drummer-Supporting Drummer:
• Gifts that Keep the Performance Going
• Chief-Counterpoint
• Poro-Sande
• 5. Time and Polyrhythm
• A Master Drummer's Life History
• Fitting the Pieces Together
• Rhythmic Patterns in the Epic
• Contingency:
• Action:
• Inner Time
• Kpelle Performance in Liberia:
• The Island of Lamu, East Africa:
• The Shona of Southern Africa:
• The Spiritual World:
• The Larger Process
• Life History
• Time in Local Life
• Balancing the Quantitative and Qualitative
• 6. Surveying the Trip: Cutting the Edge
• Central Themes
• Glossary:
• References:
• CD Notes:
• Resources: