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Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana: Our Music Has Become a Divine Spirit - SOAS Studies in Music James Burns 1st edition
Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana: Our Music Has Become a Divine Spirit - SOAS Studies in Music
James Burns
James Burns provides a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. Dzigbordi is part of a genre known as adekede, or female songs of redress, where women musicians critique gender relations in society. Burns uses audio and video i
200 pages, includes 28 b&w illustrations, 58 musical examples, 4 tables & 11 line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 18, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780754664956 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 234 |
| Dimensions | 164 × 235 × 21 mm · 612 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Howard, Professor Keith |