The Landscape of African Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Abiola Irele (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2001.32.2.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2030232507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
For too long, the field of African music has been occupied and even dominated by ethnomusicology. We have certainly much to be thankful for to this discipline, for it has provided us with valuable knowledge about the structure of our traditional music and its performance modes. Moreover, in its disciplinary and methodological association with anthropology, ethnomusicology has also brought into clear view the central role of music in African societies and cultures, its relation to other aesthetic forms in the total experience of traditional, precolonial communities, and its continuing function in the organization and sustenance of the affective and symbolic universe that surrounds and gives meaning to the material world and practical life and activities of these communities
Geography · African cultural and philosophical studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2003 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |