West African women in music: an analysis of scholarship Women's participation in music in west Africa: a reflection on filedwork, self and understanding
Abstract
- Abstract
- In June of 2006, as I packed to travel to Ghana to conduct two months of pre-dissertation exploratory research on women's music, I also packed a host of ideas about women's music in west Africa, having conducted extensive library research on the topic in the two years of graduate study I had completed just previous to my arrival in Ghana. I was hoping to find an interesting, fundable music tradition during my fieldwork that summer. I held the belief that women's music existed in west Africa as a category whose boundaries I could clearly define. I thought maybe I'd find the rare female drummer who had broken free from the taboos of gender roles in society. I wished for a group that might demonstrate a sense of female solidarity, developed through the creation of sound and movement. I sought a music tradition where women expressed themselves musically.
Description
- Description
- pages: [221]-246
Subjects
- Subject
- African Music
People & roles
- Author
-
Scharfenberger, Angela
Value Annotations
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- Indiana University Southeast
Origins & context
- Title
- West African women in music: an analysis of scholarship Women's participation in music in west Africa: a reflection on filedwork, self and understanding
- 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
- November 30, 2011
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0315
- Identifier
-
1764
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 81130