{"product_id":"representing-african-music-postcolonial-notes-queries-positions-9780415943901","title":"Representing African Music Postcolonial Notes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a critique of discourse about African music. This work offers a look at the history of African music scholarship. It offers an alternative \"Afro-centric\" means of understanding African music, and in doing so, describes a different mode of creativity beyond the usual provenance of Western criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"presents a new way to think about African music. . . . obligatory reading.\" -- Grant Olwage, \u003cem\u003eSouth African\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eJournal of Musicology \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"few books in recent years have pursued a more ambitious agenda. . .without any doubt the most powerful theoretical intervention in African musicology in a decade or more. . . by a long stretch, one of the most edgy and stylish pieces of writing on the politics of culture in postcolonial Africa to have appeared of late.\" -- Veit Erlmann, \u003cem\u003eMusic Theory Spectrum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"strikingly original.. upset[s] applecarts of convention and dispassionate prose. . . engag[es] readers in thorough, lively, critical debate about African music and Africanist musical scholarship. . .will be required reading for students of ethnomusicology, music theory, and historical musicology for some time.\" -- Gabriel Solis, \u003cem\u003eNotes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At times frankly informative, at times darkly ironic, and at times passionately earnest, Representing African Music reads like a resource text, satire, and manifesto all at once...[offers a] trenchant critique of otherwise neutral-seeming representations of African music.. makes many daring statements and reaches a series of alarming conclusions...Those in search of a genuinely global musical discourse...could do much worse than begin their quest by reading Agawu's Representing African Music. His is the unmistakable voice of authentic hope.\" -- Martin Scherzinger, \u003cem\u003eCurrent Musicology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"unfailingly intelligent, well informed, and closely argued . . .lucidly and elegantly written. . .stimulating and provocative. . provides an African outlook on controversies that have been primarily covered by scholars in Europe and the United States. . .filled with incisive observations.\" -- Richard M. Shain, \u003cem\u003eInternational Journal of African Historical Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a strikingly original book, promising to shed new light both on music from across the African continent, and on the history of Africanist musical discourse. Upsetting apple carts of convention and dispassionate prose, this book, while sure to elicit controversy from virtually all corners of contemporary American musical scholarship, should be required reading not only for African music theorists, and historical musicologist with an interest in the politics of representation.\u003cbr\u003eKofi Agawu's \u003cem\u003eRepresenting African Music does an excellent job\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eof engaging readers in a thorough, lively, critical\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003edebate about African music and Africanist musical\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003escholarship.\" -- Gabriel Solis, University of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eIllinois,Urbana-Champaign,Notes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Colonialism's Impact 2. The Archive 3. The Invention of African Rhythm 4. Polymeter, Additive Rhythm, and Other Enduring Myths 5. African Music as Text 6. Popular Music Defended Against its Devotees 7. Contesting Difference 8. How Not to Analyze African Music 9. The Ethics of Representation Epilogue References","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51585778286935,"sku":"9780415943901","price":45.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415943901.jpg?v=1756489192","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/representing-african-music-postcolonial-notes-queries-positions-9780415943901","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}