This comprehensive annotated bibliography is primarily an update and expansion of a number of reference sources published decades earlier. It represents 30 years of African musicology, starting from 1960. At the same time it constitutes the largest, broadest-based and most unified bibliography of its kind yet to appear. African Music includes 1,700 titles covering African music, embracing all of Africa, its islands, and the Diaspora. Unlike most book-length bibliographies, this reference tool includes an Author Index and a comprehensive and useful 24-page Subject Index. Scattered throughout are illustrations of old Dahomean appliques, and freehand copies of masks and other African artifacts. Entries comprise books, monographs, journals, dissertations, theses, and individual articles. Most entries have annotations of 100 words.
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"...this work merits acquisition by all colections with an African component and those interested in the many interdisciplinary implications of the subject." -- American Reference Books Annual
"This is a wonderfully human bibliography which covers a lively subject...a spirited work...The bibliography is well researched..." -- Reference Reviews
"This is a wonderfully human bibliography which covers a lively subject...a spirited work...The bibliography is well researched..." -- Reference Reviews
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Carol Lems-Dworkin is an Africanist author, musicologist, former concert pianist, professor, lecturer, and piano teacher. She has published three African-related books, and made six piano recordings of Bach soon to be released on the Internet. She holds two degrees from Northwestern University, graduated "with honors and distinction," and is a member of the following honorary academic societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi (Science), Sigma Alpha Iota (Honorary Member - Music), and Pi Kappa Lambda (Graduate-level - Music). She also received an Honorary Graduate Certificate In African Studies from the Program of African Studies of Northwestern University. At one time she studied with famed Anthropologist, Melville J. Herskovits, and Ethnomusicologist, Richard Waterman. In recent years she has specialized in the works of Scott Joplin, "The King of Ragtime," and gives regular lecture-performances on his life and music. Lems-Dworkin also lectures and conducts courses on African music and Black music of the New World.
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