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Title: | A Revised Analytical Approach to Musical Processes in Urban Africa |
Author: | Hampton, Barbara L. |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | African Urban Studies |
Issue: | 6 |
Period: | Winter |
Pages: | 1-16 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
Subjects: | music Architecture and the Arts Urbanization and Migration |
Abstract: | The main thesis of this discussion is that, when and if change occurs in West African urban music, it may fail to confirm hypotheses derived from the conceptualization of change according to prevailing notions of modernization or Westernization. There is a need for an alternative analytical tool which will take into account past and ongoing processes associated with both old patterns or traits as well as innovations in situations of confrontation and which will comprehend the several possibilities with which musicians are faced and from which they can select courses of action in such situations. The author proposes the broader concepts of musical confluence which, as she explains, is not to discard the prevailing notions, but to view them more precisely as species of musical confluence. Ref., notes, fig. |