Dried Millet Breaking: Time, Words, and Song in the Woi Epic of the Kpelle
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253318181 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 170 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Dried Millet Breaking is a commendable piece of work that should be of interest to a range of scholars in anthropology and other disciplines." - American Anthropologist "Among its many virtues, this book contains excellent examples of the special qualities of African perceptions of both the temporal and spiritual worlds." - International Journal of African Historical Studies " a sound anthropological inquiry a work that reveals alternative ways than our own of comprehending and expressing the meaning of time." - Time's News "Professor Stone's intelligent and provocative discussions of time, language, history, and African literary traditions will prove important to a broader understanding of music's role in oral literature a major contribution to the field of ethnomusicology." - Lester P. Monts
"Interesting Work of Ethnomusicology" according to Isaac Lau. I bought this book because it was among the list of ethnomusicology works I could write an essay on for my World Music class at the University I'm attending. The book lacks the multimedia format common to contemporary works (i.e. it doesn't come with a CD copy of the music it analyzes), and this is a disadvantage. However, while I'm no specialist in ethnomusicology, I found the information provided on the Woi epic of the Kpelle (a people from Li
Examining the singing, narration, dramatic performance, instrumental accompaniment, and timing of the Woi epic, Ruth M. In this illuminating study Stone moves beyond typical genre studies of African music to shed light on broader questions of music's relationship to areas of culture often ignored.. Stone reveals that the Kpelle show time flux through changing timbres, motion, and spatial metaphors in ways fundamentally different from those of much Western art music. "Dried millet breaking," sung by the bard at the end of one episode of this Woi epic of the Kpelle people of Liberia, represents a formula that breaks the flow of events and introduces the epic's complex temporal scaffolding