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African Presences I: Music in Africa

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African Presences I: Music in Africa
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  • Mande Music
    • Jembe
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Music Theory

Drumming

  • Willie Anku
    • Circles and Time: A Theory of Structural Organization of Rhythm in African Music (Music Theory Online, 2000)
  • David Locke
    • Yewevu in the Metric Matrix (Music Theory Online, 2010); Appendix (audio files)
    • The Metric Matrix (AAWM, 2011)
    • Dagomba Dance Drumming (website)
    • Agbadza (website)
  • Rainer Polak
    • Jenbe Music in Bamako: Microtiming as Formal Model
      and Performance Practice (1999)
    • Rhythmic Feel as meter: non-Isochronous Beat Subdivision in Jembe Music from Mali (2010)
    • Timing and Meter in Mande Drumming from Mali (2014)
    • A corpus study of Malian jembe drumming (2016)
  • John Chernoff and Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulai
    • A Drummer’s Testament

Other

  • Kofi Agawu
    • Engaging African Music in Music Theory (OUP blog, 2018)
  • Michael Tenzer
    • Transforming African Music Cycles (MTS, 2017)
  • Pieter van den Toorn
    • The Rite of Spring Revisited: Thoughts on Stravinsky’s Stratifications, the Psychology of Meter, and African Polyrhythm (MTS, 2017)

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