"The tome of works of Emeritus Professor JH Kwabena Nketia is central to African classical music and dance."
Absolutely. Kwabena Nketia's work in the field is phenomenal. I recently came across a 1992 work in his honor by Jacqueline Djedje, namely, African Musicology- Current Trends.
That text also includes an article by Akin Euba, another distinguished person in the field.
Can I also add Ashenafi Kebede's, " Roots of Black Music: The Vocal, Instrumental and Dance Heritage of Africa and Black America" (AWP).1995. Kebede was also an instrumentalist and a great pioneer in the field from the East African context.
I just checked Amazon for the Adelakun/Falola text. Unfortunately Amazon. does not have the table of contents for this book. I was looking forward to that bit of info.
GE
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - New book: Art, Creativity and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora
Introduction
This book explores the politics of artistic creativity, examining how black artists in Africa and the diaspora create art as a procedure of self-making. Essays cross continents to uncover the efflorescence of black culture in national and global contexts and in literature, film, performance, music, and visual art. Contributors place the concerns of black artists and their works within national and transnational conversations on anti-black racism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, migration, resettlement, resistance, and transnational feminisms. Does art by the subaltern fulfill the liberatory potential that critics have ascribed to it? What other possibilities does political art offer? Together, these essays sort through the aesthetics of daily life to build a thesis that reflects the desire of black artists and cultures to remake themselves and their world.
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