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Book List
Mark Girard - The Magick of African Drumming

 

Music and Trance - A Theory of the Relations between Music and Possession Author: Gilbert Rouget Translation from the French, Revised by Brunhilde Biebuyck in Collaboration with the Author

Mandiani Drum and Dance Dmimbe Performance and Black Aesthetics from Africa to the New World Author: Marck Sunkett Photos, musical notation, and dance diagrams. .

Drum Damba - Talking Drum Lessons Author: David Locke Featuring: Abubakari Lunna History, photos, music notation .

Kpegisu - A War Drum of the Ewe Author: David Locke Featuring: Godwin Agbeli .

Drum Gahu - The Rhythms of West African Drumming Author: David Locke Lots of musical notation .

African Rhythm and African Sensibility - Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms Author: John Miller Chernoff .

Mande Music - Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa Author: Eric Charry .

African Music - A People's Art Author: Francis Bebey Translated by: Josephine Bennett Lots of great photos of instruments being created and played. .

The Music of Africa Author: J.H. Kwabena Nketia .

Master Drummers of West Africa Author: Jerry Leake http://www.rhombuspublishing.com/master_drummers_west_africa.html The material presented in this text is based directly on field research conducted in West Africa while under the guidance of three Master Drummers. Musical examples are introduced in the same private lesson format as they were learned in Africa-an approach which should allow you to move quickly through style and variation with some background information provided along the way. West Africa encompasses more than three music traditions; no single text can completely discuss any one style. In Ghana alone there are numerous musical styles which could fill volumes-an amazing fact for a country the size of Oregon. The purpose of this text is to expand your rhythmic and cultural awareness through music and drumming while offering insights into more contemporary application, performance and composition using traditional foundations. .

African Drum Music - Adowa Author: Kongo Zabana http://www.africanbookscollective.com/publishers/afram-publications .

African Drum Music - Kpanlogo Author: Kongo Zabana http://www.africanbookscollective.com/publishers/afram-publications .

African Drum Music - Slow Agbekor Author: Kongo Zabana http://www.africanbookscollective.com/publishers/afram-publications .

Ethnomusicology and African Music Author: J. H. Kwabena Nketia http://www.africanbookscollective.com/publishers/afram-publications .