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词条 Studies in African Music
释义

  1. Summary

     Volume I Contents  Volume II Contents 

  2. Influence

  3. References

  4. External links

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| author = A.M. Jones
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| country = Great Britain
| language = English
| subject = Ethnomusicology
| genre = Non-fiction
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| release_date = 1959
| media_type = Print
| pages = 295 (Volume I), 238 (Volume II)
| isbn = 0-19-713512-9
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Studies in African Music is a 1959 book in two volumes by A.M. Jones. It is an in-depth analysis of the traditional music of the Ewe tribe.

Summary

The work is divided into two volumes,[1][2] with the first volume being an analysis of the music presented in Volume II, and the second being full-score reproductions of the pieces in question.

Volume I Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Play-Songs and Fishing Songs
  3. The Instruments of the Orchestra
  4. The Nyayito Dance
  5. Yeve Cult Music
  6. Club Dances - The Adzida Dance
  7. The Social Dance - Agbadza
  8. A Comparison of Drumming
  9. The Homogeneity of African Music
  10. Tone and Tune
  11. The Neo-Folk-Music

Volume II Contents

  1. Play-Songs and Fishing Songs
  2. The Nyayito Dance
  3. Yeve Cult Music: (a) The Husago Dance, (b) The Sovu Dance, (c) The Sogba Dance
  4. The Adzida Dance
  5. The Agbadza Dance
  6. The Icila Dance

Influence

Steve Reich has listed this work as an influence on his music, particularly his "fooling around with tape loops, which [he] began to envision as little mechanized Africans [laughs]." [3] It is also cited extensively in Volume I of Gunther Schuller's (who introduced Reich to the work) History of Jazz.[4]

References

1. ^Jones, A.M. Studies in African Music: Volume I. London: Oxford University Press. 1959
2. ^Jones, A.M. Studies in African Music: Volume II. London: Oxford University Press. 1959
3. ^Strickland, Edward. American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music (p. 40). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1991.
4. ^Schuller, Gunther. Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development. Oxford University Press. 1968

External links

  • [https://archive.org/details/studiesinafrican000105mbp Studies in African Music: Volume I] at The Internet Archive
  • [https://archive.org/details/studiesinafrican002766mbp Studies in African Music: Volume II] at The Internet Archive

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