The African Imagination in Music
Awards:   Winner of Co-winner of the 2018 Kwabena Nketia Book Award, awarded by the African Music Section.
Author:   Kofi Agawu (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Princeton University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN:  

9780190263201


Pages:   388
Publication Date:   17 March 2016
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of Co-winner of the 2018 Kwabena Nketia Book Award, awarded by the African Music Section.

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Author:   Kofi Agawu (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Princeton University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.683kg
ISBN:  

9780190263201


ISBN 10:   0190263202
Pages:   388
Publication Date:   17 March 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents Introduction 1. Music and/in society 2. Musical instruments 3. Language and/in music 4. The rhythmic imagination 5. The melodic imagination 6. The formal imagination 7. Harmony, or Simultaneous Doing 8. Appropriating African music References Discography & Videography

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Kofi Agawu was born in Ghana, West Africa where he received his initial education before studying in the UK and the US. He has taught and lectured at numerous universities in Africa, Europe and the United States. Agawu is a wide-ranging scholar and author of numerous articles and books on musical semiotics, the analysis of music, and West African music, which include Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classical Music (Princeton University Press, 1991), African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective, Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions (Routledge, 2003) and Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music (Oxford University Press, 2008). Dr. Agawu is currently a professor of music at Princeton University.

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