Often cited as one of the most innovative and influential rock musicians, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix had a short and turbulent life, succ...
Showing posts with label African music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African music. Show all posts
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Fela: This Bitch of a Life
3:32 PM
African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controv...
Thursday, June 4, 2015
In Township Tonight!: South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre, Second Edition
11:50 AM
David B. Coplan’s pioneering social history of black South Africa’s urban music, dance, and theatre established itself as a classic soon a...
Sunday, January 18, 2015
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
10:38 AM
When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World
11:42 AM
Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative p...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Music and Social Change in South Africa: Maskanda Past and Present
9:27 AM
Music and Social Change in South Africa looks at contemporary maskanda-a folk musical genre distinguished by fast guitar picking and blues...
Monday, October 20, 2014
How to Play Djembe
4:22 PM
This book is a complete, step-by-step, user friendly course on how to play djembe. Right from the start, in addition to learning how to m...
Monday, October 6, 2014
African Dance (World of Dance)
6:46 AM
The ancient tradition of African dance has influenced dance styles all over the world. It is used to commemorate many annual ceremonies an...
Monday, September 22, 2014
Ska: The Rhythm of Liberation
8:14 AM
Like other major music genres, ska reflects, reveals, and reacts to the genesis and migration from its Afro-Caribbean roots and colonial o...
Thursday, September 18, 2014
West African Pop Roots
6:33 AM
Having spent more than twenty years as a performer, manager, and producer of African music, John Collins brings an insider's perspecti...
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West
12:12 PM
How was Africa seen by the West during the colonial period? How do Europeans and Americans conceive of Africa in today's postcolonial ...
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana
2:32 PM
Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—i...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat
7:57 AM
Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational,...
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas (Music of the African Diaspora)
6:19 AM
Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse bla...
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Rihanna (People in the News)
8:03 AM
Describes the life and career of the Barbadian singer, from her discovery at age fifteen by a music producer to her international success...
Sunday, June 8, 2014
African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective
8:59 AM
The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin Am...
Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band
8:56 AM
Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918...
Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues
8:53 AM
One of the greats of blues music, Willie Dixon was a recording artist whose abilities extended beyond that of bass player. A singer, songw...
Friday, June 6, 2014
Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal
6:50 AM
"Masters of the Sabar" is the first book to examine the music and culture of Wolof griot percussionists, masters of the vibrant ...
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Race and Curriculum: Music in Childhood Education
10:19 AM
This book focuses on the near total attrition of African American students from school music programs and the travesty of democratic educa...
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