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Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western
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Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa Hardcover - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Eric Charry

From the publisher

With Mande Music, Eric Charry offers the most comprehensive source available on one of Africa's richest and most sophisticated music cultures. Using resources as disparate as early Arabic travel accounts, oral histories, and archival research as well as his own extensive studies in Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and the Gambia, Charry traces this music culture from its origins in the thirteenth-century Mali empire to the recording studios of Paris and New York. He focuses on the four major spheres of Mande music--hunter's music, music of the jelis or griots, jembe and other drumming, and guitar-based modern music--exploring how each evolved, the types of instruments used, the major artists, and how each sphere relates to the others. With its maps, illustrations, and musical transcriptions as well as an exhaustive bibliography, discography, and videography, this book is essential reading for those seeking an in-depth look at one of the most exciting, innovative, and deep-rooted phenomena on the world music scene. A compact disc is available separately.

First line

This chapter summarizes the prehistoric and historic background of western Africa with particular attention to areas inhabited by peoples speaking Mande languages.

From the rear cover

With Mande Music, Eric Charry offers the most comprehensive source available on one of Africa's richest and most sophisticated music cultures. Using resources as disparate as early Arabic travel accounts, oral histories, and archival research as well as his own extensive studies in Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and The Gambia, Charry traces this music culture from its origins pre-dating the thirteenth-century Mali empire to the recording studios of Paris and New York. He focuses on the four major spheres of Mande music-hunter's music, music of the jelis or griots, jembe and other drumming, and guitar-based modern music-exploring how each developed, the types of instruments used, the major artists, and how each sphere relates to the others. With its maps, illustrations, and musical transcriptions as well as an exhaustive bibliography, discography, and videography and a compact disc (available separately) this book is essential reading for those seeking an in-depth look at one of the most exciting, innovative, and deep-rooted phenomena on the world music scene.

Details

  • Title Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa
  • Author Eric Charry
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 531
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date October 1, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226101613 / 0226101614
  • Weight 1.83 lbs (0.83 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.36 x 1.38 in (23.88 x 16.15 x 3.51 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: West Africa
  • Library of Congress subjects Music - Africa, West - History and criticism, Mandingo (African people) - Music - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99046011
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.629

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Citations

  • Choice, 04/01/2001, Page 1471

About the author

Eric Charry is an associate professor of music at Wesleyan University.

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