Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana
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Chorus Singers
Community Music Events
Contemporary Society
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Dance Space
Divine Spirit
Drum Ensemble
Drum Language
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ethnomusicology research
Ewe Culture
Ewe Language
Ewe Musicians
Ewe Women
Female Musicians
gender and music
Independent Woman
Kinka Song
language
Lead Drum
Musical Space
Open Musical Space
qualitative fieldwork methods
Response Drums
rural Ghana studies
social critique in performance
Song Text
Southern Ewe
space
women's musical agency in West Africa
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754664956
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 documentary on the downloadable resources.
James Burns is an Assistant Professor of Music and Africana Studies at Binghamton University, USA.
