This songbook accompanies the two-disc CD recording, Fiddling in West Africa (1950s-1990s): The CD Recording (UCLA Ethnomusicology Publications, 2007), which contains examples of fiddle music by peoples living in Sudanic West Africa and selected groups residing north and south of the Sudan. The information in the songbook (and the CD) is based on music recorded between the 1950s and 1990s that Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje compiled from holdings in the Ethnomusicology Archive at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and material in her book, Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures (Indiana University Press, 2008). The songbook is divided into three parts. Part 1 includes a discussion of the first three examples on Disc 1, including the Tuareg (track 1), the Frafra (track 2), and the Nago/Yoruba (track 3), followed by material on the Fulbe of Senegambia (Disc 1, tracks 4-9), and the Hausa of Nigeria (Disc 1, tracks 10-16). Part 2 contains information on the Dagbamba of Ghana (Disc 2, tracks 1-41). For each track, DjeDje presents historical, cultural, and, where appropriate, biographical information about the artists. In addition, she includes a performance analysis (discussion of form, melody, rhythm, etc.), a transcription of the song texts in the relevant African language(s) with English translation, and a transcription (or excerpt) in Western staff notation of selected examples of fiddle music. Part 3 of the songbook includes two perspectives on the history of fiddling in Dagbon by Salisu Mahama and Alhassan Sulemana. This work sheds light on three little-known musical cultures in West Africa and the fiddle's influence upon them.
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Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje is Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology and former Director of the Ethnomusicology Archive at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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