Dried Millet Breaking

ISBN: 9780253318183 (0253318181)
Edition Type: Hardback
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Pages: 170
Date Published: 22nd Oct 1988

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Preface
Acknowledgments Music Transcription Symbols and Kpelle Orthography
Chapter 1 Battles That Never End
Chapter 2 The Woi Epic
Chapter 3 Dried Millet Breaking
Chapter 4 Exchanges That Keep the Epic Going
Chapter 5 The Textured Moment in Epic
Chapter 6 The Person in Epic
Chapter 7 The Epic in Local Life
Chapter 8 Our Old People, Their Old People: The Epic and the Past
Chapter 9 Epic and Time in Perspective
Glossary of Kpelle Terms and Names
References Cited
Index

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"Dried millet breaking," sung by the bard at the end of one episode of this Woi epic of the Kpelle people of Liberia, represents a formula that breaks the flow of events and introduces the epic's complex temporal scaffolding. Examining the singing, narration, dramatic performance, instrumental accompaniment, and timing of the Woi epic, Ruth M. Stone reveals that the Kpelle show time flux through changing timbres, motion, and spatial metaphors in ways fundamentally different from those of much Western art music. In this illuminating study Stone moves beyond typical genre studies of African music to shed light on broader questions of music's relationship to areas of culture often ignored.

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