Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

AGAWU, Kofi, African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, xx, 217 pp., ISBN 0521 148084 1 (hardback)

AGAWU, Kofi, African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,... 498 overthrow, much less the apparently genuine rejoicing as the news reached the streets. The book is a useful supplement to, but does not replace, John Pobee's Kwame Nkrumah and the Church in Ghana 1949-66 (Accra: Asempa, 1989). School of Oriental and African Studies Universio of London PAUL GIFFORD Reviews AGAWU, Kofi, African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, xx, 217 pp., ISBN 0521 148084 1 (hardback). Agawu's book not only offers an insightful description of musical expression among the-comparatively little-studied-Northern Ewe and Akpafu, but also issues a challenge to current ethnomusical theories of African music which view drumming as the site of the genesis of rhythm, and approach music as a rather isolated field of study. By contrast, Agawu starts out with a vivid account of the 'rhythms of society', whereby he leads his readers through the changing soundscape of an ordinary day with its abundance of rhythms generated by sources as diverse as church bells, car horns, children's clapping game songs, women pounding fufu, carpenters hammering nails, and girls advertiz- ing iced-water in the market. Attempting to bring some conceptual order into this complex sound- scape, Agawu develops a model for the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

AGAWU, Kofi, African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, xx, 217 pp., ISBN 0521 148084 1 (hardback)

Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 29 (4): 498 – Jan 1, 1999

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/agawu-kofi-african-rhythm-a-northern-ewe-perspective-cambridge-dMHkIh4fK7

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0022-4200
eISSN
1570-0666
DOI
10.1163/157006699X00089
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

498 overthrow, much less the apparently genuine rejoicing as the news reached the streets. The book is a useful supplement to, but does not replace, John Pobee's Kwame Nkrumah and the Church in Ghana 1949-66 (Accra: Asempa, 1989). School of Oriental and African Studies Universio of London PAUL GIFFORD Reviews AGAWU, Kofi, African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, xx, 217 pp., ISBN 0521 148084 1 (hardback). Agawu's book not only offers an insightful description of musical expression among the-comparatively little-studied-Northern Ewe and Akpafu, but also issues a challenge to current ethnomusical theories of African music which view drumming as the site of the genesis of rhythm, and approach music as a rather isolated field of study. By contrast, Agawu starts out with a vivid account of the 'rhythms of society', whereby he leads his readers through the changing soundscape of an ordinary day with its abundance of rhythms generated by sources as diverse as church bells, car horns, children's clapping game songs, women pounding fufu, carpenters hammering nails, and girls advertiz- ing iced-water in the market. Attempting to bring some conceptual order into this complex sound- scape, Agawu develops a model for the

Journal

Journal of Religion in AfricaBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1999

There are no references for this article.