- Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Djembe Culture
- Big Little West Africa (article about the West African community in NY)
- Djembe and Mande Music (other resources)
- Mande Traditional Artists (from National Geographic)
- Djembefola - U.S. page
- Djembe-L - Yahoo Group
- Knight, Roderic. The Mande Sound: African Popular Music on Records. Ethnomusicology, Vol. 33, No. 2. (Spring - Summer, 1989), pp. 371-376.
- Knight, Roderic. Mandinka Drumming. African Arts, Vol. 7, No. 4. (Summer, 1974), pp. 24-35.
- Stone, Ruth M. In Search of Time in African Music. Music Theory Spectrum, Vol. 7, Time and Rhythm in Music. (Spring, 1985), pp. 139-148.
- Knight, Roderic. Review of African Music, a People's Art. African Arts, Vol. 9, No. 3. (Apr., 1976), pp. 89-90.
- Agawu, Kofi. The Invention of "African Rhythm". Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 48, No. 3, Music Anthropologies and Music Histories. (Autumn, 1995), pp. 380-395.
- Zack-Williams, A.B., and Giles Mohan. Editorial: Africa, the African Diaspora & Development. Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 29, No. 92, Africa, the African Diaspora and Development. (Jun., 2002), pp. 205-210.
- Lake, Obiagele. Toward a Pan-African Identity: Diaspora African Repatriates in Ghana. Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 1. (Jan., 1995), pp. 21-36.
- Palmer, Colin A. Defining and Studying the Modern African Diaspora. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 85, No. 1/2. (Winter - Spring, 2000), pp. 27-32.
- Mukuna, Kazadi wa. Creative Practice in African Music: New Perspectives in the Scrutiny of Africanisms in Diaspora. Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2. (Autumn, 1997), pp. 239-250.
- Fosu-Mensah, Kwabena, Lucy Duran and Chris Stapleton. On Music in Contemporary West Africa. African Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 343. (Apr., 1987), pp. 227-240.
Books:
- Mande music : traditional and modern music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa / Eric Charry
- Africanizing knowledge : African studies across the disciplines / Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, editors
- Musical thought, history, and practice among the Mande of West Africa / by Eric S. Charry
- The African diaspora : a musical perspective / edited by Ingrid Monson (Short overview here)
- The world of African music / written and edited by Ronnie Graham
- Culture on tour : ethnographies of travel / Edward M. Bruner
- Same and other : negotiating African identity in cultural production / edited by Maria Erikson Baaz and Mai Palmberg
- Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures / Tyler Cowen
- Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles / Ted Solis
- Mali [videorecording] : the music of life / BBC Videos for Education & Training
- Badenya [sound recording] : Manden jaliya in New York City (see here for related article by Ryan Skinner)
1 comment:
Ariel, your blogging work has been exemplary. You are going way beyond the call of duty with your critical reviews (not that I object!). I’m looking forward to seeing you dig into some of the readings you’ve found on your own for the second set of reviews. You have assembled a great collection of resources; obviously you won’t have time to thoroughly read all of them, but judicious skimming can do a lot to help shape the direction of your research and raise interesting questions for you to pursue. I’m already intrigued by the questions you’ve started to formulate about what motivates students to take this course (and why so many of them find it so satisfying). Looking at the aims of the teachers will be another important step; the Locke chapter has given you some things to ponder on that front (in terms of sources of cultural authority, the nature of teaching African musical traditions in the U.S. [with its particular history of race relations], the difficult decisions teachers face when it comes to presenting performances, etc.). I think you’ll have some fascinating conversations when you begin to raise these issues with instructors and students. (You could even try to arrange for a small group discussion, though those are hard to transcribe!)
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