Resiliency and Distinction: Beliefs, Endurance and Creativity in the Musical Arts of Continental and Diasporic Africa : a Festschrift in Honor of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje

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Kimasi Lionel John Browne, Jean Ngoya Kidula
Music Research Institute, MRI Press, 2013 - African diaspora - 484 pages
Foreword / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- Preface / Akin Euba -- Introduction / Kimasi L. Browne and Jean N. Kidula -- Bowing the intellectual heartstring of continental and diasporic Africa: the enduring and distinctive scholarly work of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje / Kimasi L. Browne -- The minimalist impulse in African musical creativity / Kofi Agawu -- Pride and prejudice: how Charley Pride resolved the conflict of race, culture, and country music / Ray A. Briggs -- Unspeakable joy!: African American-style gospel choirs in the central conservatory of music in Beijing, China / Kimasi L. Browne -- Welcome to the United States of Africa: African nationalism and hip-hop perspectives on unity in the new Africa / Abimbola Cole -- Havana: sounds of worship, city of praise / Valerie Dickerson Cordero -- Folkloric performance as simulacrum: simulation and hyperreality in the interpretation of Afro-Cuban Iyesá music / Kevin M. Delgado -- Musical and institutional mediation of identities and spaces by the Ghana Methodist Church Choirs Association in North America / George Worlasi Kwasi Dor -- Drums, drumming, and the sacred sounds of silence in the Ga community of Accra, Ghana, West Africa / Clarence Bernard Henry -- "Old school worship": celebrating traditional music through re-enactment / Birgitta J. Johnson -- Of spirituals and songs of the spirit: exploring the "Transfer of function" in the musicking of African American and Kenyan Christians / Jean N. Kidula -- A glimpse into the past: documenting the 1996 Musical Instrument Collection of Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia / Cynthia Tse Kimberlin -- The Kiluka chordophones: their sonic and non-sonic cultural significance / James K. Makubuya -- Duke Ellington and world jazz composition / Eddie S. Meadows -- How artists create enduring traditions / Brian Schrag -- Testimonials -- Index.

About the author (2013)

Jean Ngoya Kidula, Associate Professor, holds a Ph.D. from the University of California (1998), an M.M. from East Carolina University, and a B.Ed. (Music/French) from the University of Nairobi. She joined the University of Georgia in 1998 after having taught at Kenyatta University and Pomona College. She teaches African Music, African-American Music, Survey of Music Cultures of the World, Topics in World Music Cultures, History, theory and methods in ethnomusicology, Seminars in Ethnomusicology. She also directs an African Music Ensemble. Her research and publications are in African musicology, indigenous, contemporary and popular music in Africa, gospel music in Africa and Sweden, African-American religious music, and composition in Africa and the Diaspora. She also is active in the performance of religious music, African choral music, and the Medieval and Renaissance vocal repertory.

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TitleResiliency and Distinction: Beliefs, Endurance and Creativity in the Musical Arts of Continental and Diasporic Africa : a Festschrift in Honor of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
EditorsKimasi Lionel John Browne, Jean Ngoya Kidula
ContributorsKimasi Lionel John Browne, Jean Ngoya Kidula, Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
Editionillustrated
PublisherMusic Research Institute, MRI Press, 2013
ISBN1933459069, 9781933459066
Length484 pages
  
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