Music Education in Africa

Music Education in Africa
Author: Emily Achieng’ Akuno
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429513690

This book explores the music of Africa and its experience in modern education, offering music education analyses from African perspectives. The collection assembles insights from around Africa to bring African and non-African scholars into the world of music, education, policy, and assessment as played out across the continent. The music of Africa presents multiple avenues for the understanding of the reality of life from a cultural perspective. The teaching and learning of this music closely follows its practice, the latter involving a combination of artistic expressions. With international interest in world music, there is need to engage with concepts and processes of this music. The volume offers new research from culture bearers, scholars, and educators rooted in practices that provide deeper perceptions of the cultural expression of music. With sections focussing on Concepts in Musical Arts, Musical Arts Processes, and Music Education Practice, it captures and documents the concept of musical arts from an African experiential perspective. Articulating the processes of musical arts and their implications for teaching and learning in both African and international learning contexts, it presents a balanced view of music as a phenomenon and generates material for discussion. A valuable resource for those seeking insight into aspects of music practice in Africa, this book will appeal to scholars of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Community Music, African Studies, and African Music.

The Music of Africa

The Music of Africa
Author: J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1974
Genre: Music
ISBN:

The study of African music is a study at once of unity and diversity. The range of indigenous musical resources and practices found on this vast continent is as wide and varies as its topography. In this informative and highly readable book, Professor Nketia provides an overview of the musical traditions of Africa with respect to their historical, cultural, and social background, their organization and practice, and delineates the most significant aspects of musical style.

The First Music

The First Music
Author: Dylan Pritchett
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-12-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1684440270

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: When the animals get together in the jungle, they discover that the noise that they have been making is indeed music. Celebrated author and master storyteller, Dylan Pritchett weaves a tale that helps us discover that we all have music inside just waiting to come out when the time is right. This original award winning story is based on the model of traditional African folktales.

Music in the Life of the African Church

Music in the Life of the African Church
Author: Roberta Rose King
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2008
Genre: Church music
ISBN: 1602580227

Furthermore, they extract useful lessons for fostering faith communities around the globe.

Songs from the Baobab

Songs from the Baobab
Author: Chantal Grosléziat
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9782923163796

Presents a collection of twenty-nine lullabies and rhymes that include lyrics reproduced in the original African language and translated into English.

African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe

African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe
Author: Mhoze Chikowero
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253018099

In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.

Sound of Africa!

Sound of Africa!
Author: Louise Meintjes
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2003-02-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822330141

DIVAn ethnography of the recording of Mbaqanga music, that examines its relation to issues of identity, South African politics, and global political economy./div

Kalani's World Rhythms

Kalani's World Rhythms
Author:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781495077760

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Amazing Peace

Amazing Peace
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2010-11-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0375982752

This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths. In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and speak the word aloud. Peace.” Read by the poet at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree at the White House on December 1, 2005, Maya Angelou’ s celebration of the “Glad Season” is a radiant affirmation of the goodness of life.