Author: Francis AgbodekaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ewe (African people)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Handbook of Eweland: The Ewes of southeastern Ghana
Author: Francis AgbodekaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ewe (African people)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Handbook of Eweland
Author: Benjamin Nicholas LawrancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Coordinated by the West African Organisation for Research on Eweland, this publication constitutes a first and much needed English language survey of the history and cultures of the Ewe peoples in the former French colonies, Benin and Togo.
Handbook of Eweland
Author: Francis AgbodekaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789964978525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
A Handbook of Eweland
Author: Kodzo GavuaA Handbook of Eweland
Author: Kodzo GavuaA Handbook of Eweland: The northern Ewes in Ghana
Author: Francis AgbodekaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ewe (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana
Author: James BurnsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351567160
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Ewe dance-drumming has been extensively studied throughout the history of ethnomusicology, but up to now there has not been a single study that addresses Ewe female musicians. James Burns redresses this deficiency through a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. Dzigbordi was specifically chosen because of the author's long association with the group members, and because it is part of a genre known as adekede, or female songs of redress, where women musicians critique gender relations in society. Burns uses audio and video interviews, recordings of rehearsals and performances and detailed collaborative analyses of song texts, dance routines and performance practice to address important methodological shifts in ethnomusicology that outline a more humanistic perspective of music cultures. This perspective encompasses the inter-linkages between history, social processes and individual creative artists. The voices of Dzigbordi women provide us not only with a more complete picture of Ewe music-making, they further allow us to better understand the relationship between culture, social life and individual creativity. The book will therefore appeal to those interested in African Studies, Gender Studies and Oral Literature, as well as ethnomusicology. Includes a DVD documentary.
Remains of Ritual
Author: Steven M. FriedsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226265064
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Remains of Ritual, Steven M. Friedson’s second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson presents a multifaceted understanding of religious practice through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. Each chapter of this fascinating book considers a different aspect of ritual life, demonstrating throughout that none of them can be conceived of separately from their musicality—in the Brekete world, music functions as ritual and ritual as music. Dance and possession, chanted calls to prayer, animal sacrifice, the sounds and movements of wake keeping, the play of the drums all come under Friedson’s careful scrutiny, as does his own position and experience within this ritual-dominated society.
Africa and the African Diaspora
Author: E. Kofi Agorsah and G. Tucker ChildsPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452040141
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Africa and the African Diaspora is the outcome of a symposium held atPortland State University in Portland, Oregon (February 2002), entitled “Symposium on Freedom in Black History,” designed to celebrate Black History Month. The major themes of the conference were how Africans both at home on the continent and dispersed abroad, often by forces beyond their control, reacted to oppression and subjugation in seeking freedom from slavery, colonialism, and discrimination. The volume documents the many forms that oppression has taken, the many forms that resistance has taken, and the cultural developments that have allowed Africans to adapt to the new and changing economic, social and environmental conditions to win back their freedom. Oppressive strategies as divide-and-rule could be based on any one of a number of features, such as skin color, place of origin, culture, or social or economic status. People drawn into the vortex of the Atlantic trade and funneled into the sugar fields, the swampy rice lands or the cotton, coffee or tobacco plantations of the new world and elsewhere, had no alternative but to risk their lives for freedom. The plantation provided the context for the dehumanization of disadvantaged groups subjected to exhausting work, frequent punishment and personal injustice of every kind, This book demonstrates that the history and interpretation of these struggles of the oppressed peoples to free themselves have not received proportionate attention and analysis, as have other aspects of that history.
Revelations of Dominance and Resilience
Author: Apoh, WaziPublisher: Sub-Saharan Publishers
ISBN: 9988883048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Chinua Achebe ("The art of fiction”) famously observed that until lions have their own historians “the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” In this volume chronicling the complex imperial and colonial entanglements of the Kpando region in eastern Ghana over recent centuries, the lions have found their proverbial historian. Drawing on an array of sources—archaeological, oral historical and documentary—Wazi Apoh brings locally nuanced perspective to the complex social political economic entanglements among Akpini, German and British actors. His illumination of previously silenced histories provides a rich platform from which to provoke us to imagine and act on the possibilities for restorative repatriation in the present. Its novel combination of historical study with analysis of ongoing dialogues over repatriation is a unique contribution to African studies.