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Title:Ethnomusicology, The Music Canon, and African Music: Positions, Tensions, and Resolutions in the African Academy
Author:Kidula, Jean N.ISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:Africa Today
Volume:52
Issue:3
Period:Spring
Pages:99-113
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
Kenya
Subjects:music
anthropology
Architecture and the Arts
Education and Oral Traditions
Bibliography/Research
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v052/52.3kidula.pdf
Abstract:African music entered serious scholarship through disciplines such as ethnomusicology. While scholars in African music have contributed significantly to the development of theories and methods of culture, the musics of Africa have been portrayed more as artifact than art, and African music scholars have been directed by European and other music practices. The resultant positions and tensions in the continent's academic music management are reflected in ethnomusicological discourse with African music. Drawing from Kenya, the paper examines the processes through which the African academy has grappled with the dynamics of ethnomusicology, African musicology, and the place of African music and musicians. An African musicology cognizant of the contributions of African musicians to the global-music canon while situating them in the historical development of African music is proposed. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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