Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana: Our Music Has Become a Divine Spirit

by James Burns

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138252263
• ISBN13: 9781138252264
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"