The social mechanics of good music: a description of dance clubs among the Anlo Ewe-speaking people of Ghana
Abstract
- Abstract
- Among the Ewe-speaking people of southeastern Ghana, southern Togoland and southern Dahomey, there are different kinds of music. We have narrative songs, war songs, cradle songs, dirges, play songs, and even chorales (which are foreign to our culture). Along with these one can find different types of cult music belonging to the local rites of worship of the gods, and court music. In African societies, music incorporates dance; therefore music in this paper refers to the drumming, singing, and dancing of the dance clubs
Description
- Description
- pages: 6-22
Subjects
People & roles
- Author
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Ladzekpo, Kobla
Value Annotations
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- California Institute of the Arts
Origins & context
- Title
- The social mechanics of good music: a description of dance clubs among the Anlo Ewe-speaking people of Ghana
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Created Date
- July 7, 1971
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-01b7
- Identifier
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1144
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 78230