Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Iroro
Author: Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru
Author: William Curtis FarabeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Contemporary Dimensions in Nigerian Music
Author: Charles AluedePublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9785916502
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
From ancient to contemporary times, music in the area known as Nigeria has passed through different stages of transmutation. Primarily transmitted through oral means has in the last century received significant scholarly attention. Areas like folksong documentation, ethno-organological studies, popular music studies and art music have continued to feature in scholarly discourse. Societal dynamism allows room for scholarly reassessment and evaluation of aspects of Nigerian music; thus, reflecting change and continuity in the area. It is within this cusp that this book looks at contemporary trajectories in Nigerian music.
Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Author: Peabody Museum Papers
Author: Alfred Marston TozzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
A Maya Grammar
Author: Alfred Marston TozzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Early and indispensible study of Maya language, published for the Peabody Institute. A must-have for any student of the Maya.
Gazetteer - United States Board on Geographic Names
Author: United States Board on Geographic NamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Scholarship and Commitment
Author: Sunny AwhefeadaPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9785739937
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
Professor Darah turned seventy on Wednesday November 22, 2017 and to celebrate his very productive career, his colleagues and many of those he has mentored thought it appropriate to mark his official exit from the university in a dignified way by commissioning for publication, in the now acceptable festschrift tradition, the highly compelling and outstanding collection of essays titled: Scholarship and Commitment: Essays in Honour of G.G. Darah. The book is a ground-breaking collection of essays; some are couched as tributes to the ebullient celebrant, there are others on more serious discourses in the areas of literary theories and criticism, language and linguistics, popular literature and politics, the African woman, identity and contemporary realities, oral literature, the news media and cultural studies. The essays, on their own, attest to the vivacity and liveliness as well as the encouraging state of health of publishing in the Nigerian academia, which in this collection alone, parades forty-two essays in different fields or discourses.
Bridging constructions
Author: Valérie GuérinPublisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961101418
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Many descriptive grammars report the use of a linguistic pattern at the interface between discourse and syntax which is known generally as tail-head linkage. This volume takes an unprecedented look at this type of linkage across languages and shows that there exist three distinct variants, all subsumed under the hypernym bridging constructions. The chapters highlight the defining features of these constructions in the grammar and their functional properties in discourse. The volume reveals that: Bridging constructions consist of two clauses: a reference clause and a bridging clause. Across languages, bridging clauses can be subordinated clauses, reduced main clauses, or main clauses with continuation prosody.Bridging constructions have three variants: recapitulative linkage, summary linkage and mixed linkage. They differ in the formal makeup of the bridging clause.In discourse, the functions that bridging constructions fulfil depend on the text genres in which they appear and their position in the text.If a language uses more than one type of bridging construction, then each type has a distinct discourse function.Bridging constructions can be optional and purely stylistic or mandatory and serve a grammatical purpose.Although the difference between bridging constructions and clause repetition can be subtle, they maintain their own distinctive characteristics.
The Development of African Drama
Author: Michael EthertonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000952525
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as ‘traditional performance’ and African theatre’. It analyses the links between drama and ritual, and drama and music and diagnoses the confusions in our thought. The reader is reminded that drama is never merely the printed word, but that its existence as literature and in performance is necessarily different. The analysis shows that literature tends to replace performance; and drama, removed from the popular domain, becomes elitist. The book’s richness lies in the constantly stimulating analysis of ‘art’ theatre, as exemplified in protest plays, in African adaptations and transpositions of such classical subjects as the Bacchae and Everyman, in plays on African history, on colonialism and neo-colonialism. The final chapters argue that the form of African drama needs to evolve as the content does.