ENGLISH 240: Studies in World Literature

 

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Music/Theater in African Cultures
Books | Journal Articles | Websites

Selected Books

Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students (4 v.)
REF DT3.A249

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African & African American Experience (5 v.)
REF DT14.A37435

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (29 v.)
ML100.N48

Studies In African Music
ML3760.J63

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Selected Journal Articles

Agawa, Kofi. "African Music as Text." Research in African Literatures 32.2 (Summer 2001): 8.

Arnoldi, Mary Jo. "Political history and social commentary in Malian Sogobo theater." Africa Today 41.2 (2nd Quarter 1994): 39.

Crow, Brian. "African Metatheater: Criticizing Society, Celebrating the Stage." Research in African Literatures 33.1 (Spring 2002): 133.

Fabian, Johannes. "Popular Culture in Africa: Findings and Conjectures." Africa 48.4 (1978): 315.

Fenn, John, and Alex Perullo. "Language Choice and Hip Hop in Tanzania and Malawi." Popular Music & Society 24.3 (Fall 2000): 73.

Fiebach, Joachim. "Dimensions of theatricality in Africa." Research in African Literatures 30.4 (Winter 1999): 186.

Garrett, Greg. "Introduction: African Popular Culture and the Western Scholar." Journal of Popular Culture 32.2 (Fall 1998): 1.

Geschiere, Peter. "The Generation of Plays: Yoruba popular life in theatre." Africa 76.4 (2006): 598-600.

Gibbs, James. "African Drama and Perfromance." Africa Today 52.2 (Winter 2005): 78-80.

Irele, F. Abiola. "The Landscape of African Music." Research in African Literatures 32.2 (Summer 2001): 1.

Jenkins, Mildred. “Impact of African Music Upon the Western Hemisphere.” Journal of Negro Education. 14.1 (Winter 1945): 11-17.

Jules-Rosette, Bennetta. "Song and Spirit: The Use of Songs in the Management of Ritual Contexts." Africa 45.2 (1975): 150.

Lindsay, Lisa A. "Arrest the Music! Fela and his rebel art and politics." Africa 76.4 (2006): 600-601.

McMahon, Christina. "A History of Theatre in Africa." Luso-Brazilian Review 42.2 (2005): 172-174.

Mugambi, Helen Nabasuta. "Intersections: Gender, orality, text, and female space in contemporary Kiganda radio songs." Research in African Literatures 25.3 (Fall 1994): 47.

Mushengyezi, Aaron. "Rethinking indigenous media: rituals, 'talking' drums and orality as forms of public communication in Uganda." Journal of African Cultural Studies 16.1 (June 2003): 107-117.

Nesbitt, Nick. "African Music, Ideology and Utopia." Research in African Literatures 32.2 (Summer 2001): 175.

Ojaide, Tanure. "Poetry, Performance, and Art: Udje Dance Songs of Nigeria's Urhobo People." Research in African Literatures 32.2 (Summer 2001): 44.

Olaniyan, Tejumola. "The Cosmopolitan Nativist: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Antinomies of Postcolonial Modernity." Research in African Literatures 32.2 (Summer 2001): 76.

Osofisan, Femi. "Theater and the rites of `post-Negritude' remembering." Research in African Literatures 30.1 (Spring 1999): 1.

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Websites

African Music and Dance: Resources on the Web

African Music Encyclopedia

African Music on the Internet: An Annotated Bibliography

History of Theater in Africa (online book)

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Contact: Rob Walsh, Reference & Instruction Librarian
Updated: October 2007