Item Detail
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Gray, John
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African music : a bibliographical guide to the traditional, popular, art, and liturgical musics of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Book
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African special bibliographic series ; no. 14
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Westport, Conn.
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1991
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Greenwood Press
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xii, 499 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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0313277699 (alk. paper)
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Music--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History and criticism--Bibliography.
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African Music; Traditional African Music; Popular African Music; Art Music; Ligurgical Music
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ML 120 .A35 G7 1991
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Gray, John. African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art , and Liturgical Musics of the Sub-Saharan Africa. African Special Bibliographic Series, no. 14. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1991.
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This biographical guide is valuable to students, scholars, and librarians interested in researching a variety of African music and influences.
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Although the earliest source contained in the guide is dated in 1732, the main coverage of the text is devoted to ethnographic, anthropological, musicological and popular studies of sub-Saharan African music from the 1890s to 1990. The items that are included in this guide are books, dissertations, unpublished papers, periodical and newspaper articles, films, videotapes, and audio tapes. Languages of coverage include all major Western languages and several African ones as well.
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This source is organized into six basic sections. Section one covers works on cultural history and the performing arts in sub-Saharan Africa. Section two is a select guide to works on Ethnomusicology. Section three deals with general works and regional/country studies of traditional sub-Saharan music. Section four is general works and regional/country studies of popular music as well as biographical and critical studies of popular musicians and groups. Section five focuses mainly on art music of the African elite and provides biographical and critical studies on composers and performers. Section six covers general studies on African church music. Each basic section is broken down further into smaller subsections. Each entry is given a number and contains only a citation of the particular text without annotations. After the six basic sections, there are three appendices. Appendix one refers to general reference works based on genre (books, papers, films etc.) Appendix two outlines Archives and Research centers for African music. Appendix three is a selected discography. Following the appendices, there are a number of indexes. These indexes include an ethnic group index, an ethnic group country index, a subject index, an artist index, and an author index. Each index cites numbers referring back to the main six sections.
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This source covers a wide range of musical genres. Cons: While this source seeks to be comprehensive, there are no set limitations on the quality of the sources listed.
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Agawu, Kofi. Traditional Music Yearbook 24 (1992): 169.http://www.jstor.org/stable/768486
Avorgbedor, Daniel. Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology 7 (1996): 105-7.
Waterman, Christopher A. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 51 (September 1994): 213-15.http://www.jstor.org/stable/899244 -
BYU Mus Ref
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