The African Imagination in Music by Kofi AgawuPublication Date: 2016-03-02
The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. Agawu leads his readers through an exploration of the traditions, structural elements, instruments, and performative techniques that characterize the music. In sections that focus upon rhythm, melody, form, and harmony, the essential parts of African music come into relief. The African Imagination in Music foregrounds a hitherto under-reported legacy of recordings and insists on the necessity of experiencing music as sound in order to appreciate and understand it fully.