The African Imagination In Music

Introduction
Kofi Agawu
Introduction
Kofi Agawu
“Africa”
Introduction
“African Music”
Introduction
(p.4) The Recorded Legacy
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Groove as Essence
Introduction
Introduction
Difference?
Introduction
Introduction
Rationale for Another Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
(p.23) Writing/Representation
Introduction
Introduction
(p.25) Readership
How to Use This Book
Introduction
Introduction
Notes:
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Introduction
Music and/in Society
Kofi Agawu
Music and/in Society
Kofi Agawu
Abstract and Keywords
Music and/in Society
No Word for Music?
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
(p.32) How, Then, Do Africans Talk About “Music”?
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Occasions for Music Making: Work, Ritual, and Entertainment
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music Across the Life Cycle
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music in Funeral Traditions: An Akpafu Example
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Categorizing the Varieties of African Music: The Traditional-Popular-Art Grid
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Musical Structure and Social Structure
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Circular Representation of Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
(p.64) Conclusion
Music and/in Society
Notes:
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Music and/in Society
Musical Instruments
Kofi Agawu
Musical Instruments
Kofi Agawu
Abstract and Keywords
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
(p.68) Sources of Data on African Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Against the Hornbostel-Sachs System of Classification
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Indigenous Ideas About Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Voice.
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Handclap.
Musical Instruments
Drum.
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
One-stringed fiddle.
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Mbira.
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Flutes and horns.
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Kora and seperewa.
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
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Musical Instruments
(p.111) Conclusion
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Notes:
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Language and/in Music
Kofi Agawu
Language and/in Music
Kofi Agawu
Abstract and Keywords
Language and/in Music
Language as Foundation for Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
The Poetics of Solo, Duet, and Ensemble Performance
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Tone and Tune
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
How Drums Talk
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
(p.136) Song
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
(p.147) Metalanguage
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Ideophones
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
A “Linguistic” Residue in Performance Sensibility?
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
(p.154) Conclusion
Language and/in Music
Notes:
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
Language and/in Music
The Rhythmic Imagination
Kofi Agawu
The Rhythmic Imagination
Kofi Agawu
Abstract and Keywords
The Idea of “African Rhythm”
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
(p.158) Time
(p.159) Rhythms of Speech Versus Rhythms of the Body
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
Representing the Domain of Rhythmic Expression
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
Free and Strict Rhythms in Song
The Rhythmic Imagination
(p.165) Speech Mode, Signal Mode, and Dance Modes of Drumming
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Philosophy and Practice of Ensemble Performance
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
Handclapping patterns.
The Rhythmic Imagination
Time lines.
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
Polyrhythm.
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
Lead-drum narratives.
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
(p.188) A Generative Approach
The Rhythmic Imagination
To Notate or Not to Notate?
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
Conclusion
The Rhythmic Imagination
Notes:
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Rhythmic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
Kofi Agawu
The Melodic Imagination
Kofi Agawu
Abstract and Keywords
The Melodic Imagination
Valuing African Melody
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
Language as Gateway
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Logic of Melodic Form
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
Pitch Resources
The Melodic Imagination
Analyzing Melody
The Melodic Imagination
An Aka Pygmy child’s three-note melody.
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
(Other) Children’s Melodies
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
A Northern Ewe crying song, “Afaa ko yee.”
The Melodic Imagination
Afaa ko yee.
Tasi ‘faa ko yee.
The Melodic Imagination
Ameke ɖi h̃ia ga va kpɔ nu ‘ya eko z̃ia tɔ.
Nye tsɛ ma ku zɛ̃ɛ̃ kpɔ.
The Melodic Imagination
Adanfo ee, nye tsɛ ma ku zɛ̃ɛ̃ kpɔ.
Nye tsɛ ma ku zɛ̃ɛ̃ makpɔ lɔ̃nyelawoe.
Tsiɛ diɛ woe.
Gbolo ee ayee.
Yoo, yoo, yoo.
The Melodic Imagination
An Akpafu lament, “Ɔwere ame bɔi lo kpi kutukɑ̃” (“The river creature died of thirst”)
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
An Afrobeat song by Fela: “Shuffering and Shmiling.”
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
A gonje (one-stringed fiddle) performance.
The Melodic Imagination
A Dan woman’s lament.
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
Melodic archetypes.
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
Conclusion
Notes:
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Melodic Imagination
The Formal Imagination
Kofi Agawu
The Formal Imagination
Kofi Agawu
Abstract and Keywords
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
Varieties of Form: A Sampling
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
Five Principles of Form
The Formal Imagination
Call and response.
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
The variation impulse.
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
The narrative impulse.
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
Moment form.
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
Conclusion
The Formal Imagination
Notes:
The Formal Imagination
The Formal Imagination
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Kofi Agawu
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Kofi Agawu
Abstract and Keywords
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
A Quick Tour of Harmonic Environments
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Terminology: Harmony, Polyphony, or Multipart?
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Jones’s 1959 Map of African Harmony
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
(p.281) Vignettes of African Harmony
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Singing in unison and parallel octaves.
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Singing under an anhemitonic pentatonic regime.
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Singing in parallel thirds.
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Triadic successions.
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
“European” Harmony
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Simultaneous, Independent Doing?
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Conclusion
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Notes:
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing
Appropriating African Music
Kofi Agawu
Appropriating African Music
Kofi Agawu
Abstract and Keywords
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriation: Theft, Homage, or Benign Influence?
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriation of African Music by Composers of Western Art Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
African Art Music: A Mode of “Self-Appropriation”?
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Conclusion
Notes:
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music
Appropriating African Music