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)