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Composition
in Africa And the Diaspora
Volume 1
by Akin Euba & Cynthia Tse Kimberlin, Eds.
Published by the MRI Press 2008
186 pages, ISBN
978-1-933459-01-1
$16.00 per copy plus shipping
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The eight essays in this volume are
representative of activities exemplifying the mission of CIMACC and whose oral
presentations were given at the 1st biennial Intercultural Symposium
and Festival titled “Music in Africa and the Diaspora”, at Churchill
College, in 2001. Two topics were discussed and included autobiographical
discourses on music compositional creativity and the contexts of African
dynamism in music composition.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Autobiographical Discourse on Music Compositional Creativity
- The Compositional Style
of Robert Mawuena Kwami: 1973
– 82 (Robert Mawuena Kwami)
- Three Musings of Kyekye:
A Case for Ghanaian Gyil Music as a Basis for African Pianism1
(Paul W. Humphreys)
- Selected Art Songs of
Wallace McClain Cheatham (Wallace McClain Cheatham)
- A View from Within
(Nathan Davis)
Contexts
of African Dynamism in Music
Composition
- This Building is Going
to Fly: Halim El-Dabh and the
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (Denise A. Seachrist)
- The Choral Arrangements
and Performace Practice of Arthur Kemoli (Jean Kidula)
- Is Modern African art
Music a Re-packaged Re-manifestation of 19th – Century Style
Colonial Soirees? : The Musical Society of Nigeria as a Case in Point (Paul
Konye)
- J.H.Kwabena Nketia and
the African Avant-Garde (Akin Euba)
Contributors
Index
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