Female voices from an Ewe dance-drumming community in Ghana : our music has become a divine spirit

Female voices from an Ewe dance-drumming community in Ghana : our music has become a divine spirit / James Burns.

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 was specifically chosen because of the author's long association with the group members, and because it is part of a ge...

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Main Author: Burns, James (James M.)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
Series:SOAS musicology series.
Subjects:
Dzigbordi Hab̳ob̳o.
Ewe (African people) > Music > History and criticism.
Music > Social aspects > Ghana > Dzodze.
Women musicians > Ghana > Dzodze.
Dance > Social aspects > Ghana > Dzodze.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Daughters of the drum : the social environment of female artists in Dzodze
  • The dance space : music associations, territories and events
  • We are a communinty dance-drumming group : the Dzigbordi Hab̳ob̳o of Dzodze
  • Doing it for everyone to see : the oral artistry of Dzigbordi in performance.
  • Contents of accompanying DVD: Christian dance music
  • Dzodze
  • Female life in Dzodze
  • Music associations in Dzodze
  • The song and drum leaders
  • Dancing in Dzigbordi
  • The Dzigbordi Haborbor
  • Atsiã solo dance styles
  • The Atsiã dance style of Dasi Amedahe
  • The Atsiã dance style of Esther Amegble
  • The Atsiã dance style of Dzatsugbi Agoha
  • The Atsiã dance style of Sylvia Segla
  • The Atsiã dance style of Xornam Tagborlo
  • The future of Dzigbordi.

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