Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool

ISBN-13: 9780367356101 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 258 str.

Kwasi Ampene

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction;  2. Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Historical Perspective;  3. The Language and Poetry of Ivory Trumpets and Durugya Flute;  4. The Language and Poetry of Drums;  5. Rhetoric and History: Kete Songs and Physician’s Songs;  6. Rhetoric and History-Chronicle and Referential Poetry (Kwadwom and Apae)

O autorze

Kwasi Ampene is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan (USA). He specializes in the rich musical traditions of the Akan people of Ghana, West Africa. He is author of Female Song Tradition and the Akan of Ghana (Ashgate); Engaging Modernity: Asante in the Twenty-First Century (Michigan Publishing); and the producer of the documentary film, Gone to the Village.