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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 of Religion in Africa – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1999
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