J H Kwabena Nketia
Biographic Data
| ID | 104949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J H Kwabena Nketia |
| GIVEN NAMES | J H Kwabena |
| FAMILY NAME | Nketia |
| SIGNATURE | NKETIA J H K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Historical Evidence in ga Religious Music
The ‘oral traditions’ of African societies in Ghana do not deal only with migrations, wars, and dynasties when these traditions refer to the past. Sporadic references to material culture and art forms—to songs, musical instruments and dances— are made in ‘historical’ narrations, particularly where these are linked to important events, significant places or outstanding individuals, or where there are remarkable innovations. These provide the histo…
Musicology and Linguistics: Integrating the Phraseology of Text and Tune in the Creative Process
The implications of analogous features of music and for theory and method in disciplines of musicology and linguistics have long been of interest to scholars. In a paper on Sounds and Prosodies, originally published in 1948, J. R. Firth (1957b, 121-138) contends that the musical aspects of language previously recognized as speech attributes belong to a syntagmatic system he wished to designate as This system includes properties of syllabic struct…
Ghana, Republic of
The JVC & Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of Africa
Contextual Strategies of Inquiry and Systematization
WFThen the President of the Society invited me to give the Seeger Memorial Lecture, she suggested I speak about some methodological issue of particular interest to me. Since the theme of this year's meeting is Assessing Ethnomusicology Today, I have chosen, on this occasion, to present a critique of context and contextualization, using the holism of Seeger as a springboard, while citing here and there some of his corroborative statements and gene…
African Music and Western Praxis: A Review of Western Perspectives on African Musicology
(1986). African Music and Western Praxis: A Review of Western Perspectives on African Musicology. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 36-56
Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, Vol 5: Studies in African Music
Developing Contemporary Idioms out of Traditional Music
J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Developing Contemporary Idioms out of Traditional Music, Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, T. 24, Supplementum: Report of the Musicological Congress of the International Music Council (1982), pp. 81-97
The Music of Africa
The Music of Africa
The Music of Africa
The Study of African and Afro-American Music
The Language Problem and the African Personality
Drumming in Akan Communities of Ghana
African Music in Ghana
The Hocket-Technique in African Music
Studies of the musical instruments of Africa by Kirby, Wachsmann, Maquet, Solderberg and others, have demonstrated that, in addition to drums, examples of all the main classes of musical instruments are to be found in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to drums, there is a wide variety of idiophones (including xylophones), as well as various types of lutes, zithers, flutes, etc. In spite of this variety, there appears to be a widespread tendency to …
The Problem of Meaning in African Music
The study of as a universal aspect of human behaviour is becoming increasingly recognized as the focus of Ethnomusicology. Seeger has said that the ultimate task of musicology is to contribute to the study of man what can known of man as maker and user (Seeger 1952:366). Other writers have similarly shown concern for what is conceived to be (McAllester 1954) or what means to those who make it, and have referred in this connection to the close rel…
The role of the drummer in Akan society
Drumming is widely enjoyed in all Akan communities of the Gold Coast, but unlike singing, the performers are fewer than might be expected, for the art of drumming requires skill and perfection which only a few attain. Moreover opportunities of drumming and learning to drum are not open to all. In social life all the important forms of drumming are carried on by individuals or groups of individuals selected from the male section of various Akan co…
West African Voices
A new literary programme has been started in the West African Service of the B.B.C., and this article is a reprint of one of the talks. The Ibo speaker was formerly in the Customs, and qualified as a barrister last November: he is also the author of numerous poems in English, and of a novel, The Prince of Utete. The other two are schoolmasters working as Assistants at the School of Oriental and African Studies. For technical reasons, the orthogra…
Drumming in Akan Communities of Ghana
The Problem of Meaning in African Music
The study of as a universal aspect of human behaviour is becoming increasingly recognized as the focus of Ethnomusicology. Seeger has said that the ultimate task of musicology is to contribute to the study of man what can known of man as maker and user (Seeger 1952:366). Other writers have similarly shown concern for what is conceived to be (McAllester 1954) or what means to those who make it, and have referred in this connection to the close rel…
Contextual Strategies of Inquiry and Systematization
WFThen the President of the Society invited me to give the Seeger Memorial Lecture, she suggested I speak about some methodological issue of particular interest to me. Since the theme of this year's meeting is Assessing Ethnomusicology Today, I have chosen, on this occasion, to present a critique of context and contextualization, using the holism of Seeger as a springboard, while citing here and there some of his corroborative statements and gene…
The role of the drummer in Akan society
Drumming is widely enjoyed in all Akan communities of the Gold Coast, but unlike singing, the performers are fewer than might be expected, for the art of drumming requires skill and perfection which only a few attain. Moreover opportunities of drumming and learning to drum are not open to all. In social life all the important forms of drumming are carried on by individuals or groups of individuals selected from the male section of various Akan co…
The Hocket-Technique in African Music
Studies of the musical instruments of Africa by Kirby, Wachsmann, Maquet, Solderberg and others, have demonstrated that, in addition to drums, examples of all the main classes of musical instruments are to be found in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to drums, there is a wide variety of idiophones (including xylophones), as well as various types of lutes, zithers, flutes, etc. In spite of this variety, there appears to be a widespread tendency to …
Developing Contemporary Idioms out of Traditional Music
J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Developing Contemporary Idioms out of Traditional Music, Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, T. 24, Supplementum: Report of the Musicological Congress of the International Music Council (1982), pp. 81-97
West African Voices
A new literary programme has been started in the West African Service of the B.B.C., and this article is a reprint of one of the talks. The Ibo speaker was formerly in the Customs, and qualified as a barrister last November: he is also the author of numerous poems in English, and of a novel, The Prince of Utete. The other two are schoolmasters working as Assistants at the School of Oriental and African Studies. For technical reasons, the orthogra…
The role of the drummer in Akan society
Drumming is widely enjoyed in all Akan communities of the Gold Coast, but unlike singing, the performers are fewer than might be expected, for the art of drumming requires skill and perfection which only a few attain. Moreover opportunities of drumming and learning to drum are not open to all. In social life all the important forms of drumming are carried on by individuals or groups of individuals selected from the male section of various Akan co…
The Hocket-Technique in African Music
Studies of the musical instruments of Africa by Kirby, Wachsmann, Maquet, Solderberg and others, have demonstrated that, in addition to drums, examples of all the main classes of musical instruments are to be found in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to drums, there is a wide variety of idiophones (including xylophones), as well as various types of lutes, zithers, flutes, etc. In spite of this variety, there appears to be a widespread tendency to …
The Problem of Meaning in African Music
The study of as a universal aspect of human behaviour is becoming increasingly recognized as the focus of Ethnomusicology. Seeger has said that the ultimate task of musicology is to contribute to the study of man what can known of man as maker and user (Seeger 1952:366). Other writers have similarly shown concern for what is conceived to be (McAllester 1954) or what means to those who make it, and have referred in this connection to the close rel…
African Music in Ghana
Drumming in Akan Communities of Ghana
The Language Problem and the African Personality
The Study of African and Afro-American Music
The Music of Africa
The Music of Africa
The Music of Africa
Developing Contemporary Idioms out of Traditional Music
J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Developing Contemporary Idioms out of Traditional Music, Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, T. 24, Supplementum: Report of the Musicological Congress of the International Music Council (1982), pp. 81-97
African Music and Western Praxis: A Review of Western Perspectives on African Musicology
(1986). African Music and Western Praxis: A Review of Western Perspectives on African Musicology. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 36-56
Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, Vol 5: Studies in African Music
Contextual Strategies of Inquiry and Systematization
WFThen the President of the Society invited me to give the Seeger Memorial Lecture, she suggested I speak about some methodological issue of particular interest to me. Since the theme of this year's meeting is Assessing Ethnomusicology Today, I have chosen, on this occasion, to present a critique of context and contextualization, using the holism of Seeger as a springboard, while citing here and there some of his corroborative statements and gene…
The JVC & Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of Africa
Ghana, Republic of
Musicology and Linguistics: Integrating the Phraseology of Text and Tune in the Creative Process
The implications of analogous features of music and for theory and method in disciplines of musicology and linguistics have long been of interest to scholars. In a paper on Sounds and Prosodies, originally published in 1948, J. R. Firth (1957b, 121-138) contends that the musical aspects of language previously recognized as speech attributes belong to a syntagmatic system he wished to designate as This system includes properties of syllabic struct…
Historical Evidence in ga Religious Music
The ‘oral traditions’ of African societies in Ghana do not deal only with migrations, wars, and dynasties when these traditions refer to the past. Sporadic references to material culture and art forms—to songs, musical instruments and dances— are made in ‘historical’ narrations, particularly where these are linked to important events, significant places or outstanding individuals, or where there are remarkable innovations. These provide the histo…
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