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An Introduction to the Music of Sierra Leone by van OVEN, Cootje - 1981

by van OVEN, Cootje

An Introduction to the Music of Sierra Leone by van OVEN, Cootje - 1981

An Introduction to the Music of Sierra Leone

by van OVEN, Cootje

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[Freetown, Sierra Leone]: Government Printing Department. Very Good+. 1981. Paperback. A scarce, oversize paperback volume which analyzes the music of West Africa's Sierra Leone. Types of songs, instruments, styles, rhythms and other aspects of Sierra Leonean music are discussed. With several pages of black & white photos. A cassette tape which is referenced inside the book is not present. This work sponsored by the Minister for Development Co-operation of the Netherlands. --- In stiff pink wraps with titling in blue to cover and spine. --- A sound copy: clean, bright and tightly-bound but with a few specks of soiling to covers.; Quarto - 11 to 13 in. tall; 85 pages .
  • Bookseller Bluebird Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Paperback
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good+
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher Government Printing Department
  • Place of Publication [Freetown, Sierra Leone]
  • Date Published 1981
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by Van Oven, Cootje

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Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9789090162621 / 9090162623
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Eigen beheer, 2005. Paperback ed., 692 pp. Geill., 20,3 x 29,4 x 3,9 cm. Some light traces of use on the cover. ISBN 9090162623. Jacoba (Cootje) van Oven was a music teacher and musicologist, was born in 1920 in Dordrecht, The Netherlands. In 1960, she became a music teacher in Freetown, Sierra Leone. There she was struck by the indigenous music traditions and decided to spend her weekends and holidays to record and describe local music styles, songs and instruments. This she continued to do until 1978 and all in all she collected a corpus of some 450 songs. She published several educational books on this material for local use, as it was always her intention that what she collected and researched should be handed back to the local populations. Her recorded material offers a unique and detailed view of Sierra Leone's musical history in the 1960s and 1970s. Van Oven was the author of what remains the authoritative book on Sierra Leonean music, 'An Introduction to the Music of Sierra Leone', published… Read More
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