Professor Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum

Walking with Asafo in Ghana

An Ethnographic Account of Kormantse Bentsir Warrior Music

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Produktbeschreibung

The first full-length study of the musical pasts of Asafo warrior associations based on the author's "ways of walking" with local scholars along the Ghanaian littoral.

Produktdetails

• Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781648250446
• ISBN-10: 1648250440
• Artikelnr.: 63246186

Autorenporträt

AMA OFORIWAA ADUONUM is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Public Scholar at Illinois State University at Normal, IL.

Inhaltsangabe

Nkankyee Summoning Asafo Introduction Part 1. Walking into the Past 1.
Walking for Asafo: Entangled Meanings, Abakosem Awakenings 2. Knocking:
History Walking 3. Memory Walking: A Haptic Way of Knowing Part II. Walking
with Women 4. Walking with Women at Kokoado Hill and Kormantse Seaside 5.
"It was Too Sweet!" Walking with Two Kormantse Women Part III. Walking with
Asafo Music 6. The Listening and Musicking Walk 7. "Kenkan Makes it Sweet":
Walking with Asafo Ndwom 8. Anamm¿n: Shadows in the Field, Leaving
Footprints Nkekaho Re-Invocation References Index