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oapen-20.500.12657-575562022-07-21T02:58:10Z Walking with Asafo in Ghana Aduonum, Ama Oforiwaa Music; African Studies bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music & musicology What is Asafo (music)? How and when is it performed? What is the state of this warrrior tradition that once served as the bedrock of the Akan, Ewe, and Ga societies in Ghana? How does Asafo enact the past and serve as an archive for the people? In an attempt to answer these questions, Walking with Asafo in Ghana investigates the musical pasts of Asafo. The book is an ethnography of walking, organized into eight chapters. Each chapter ends with a piece of creative writing in the author ethnographic voice in which she sums up the main ideas. It is Aduonum attempt at an anticolonial and decolonialist African musicology, one that subverts and decenters white racial framing of research, analysis, and presentation, disrupting how Euro-American concepts frame our ways of telling and experiencing Aduonum goal on this trajectory is to tell her story, create something new, and chart a new path. Through this fluid and complex book, she repositions African Elders&knowledge as epistemologies of decolonization and de-coloniality and centers the stories shared by local Fante scholars. The text is polyvocal, multimodal, multiperspective, performative, reflexive, and dialogic, informed by the structure of Asafo appellations, proverbs, her mentors tellings, and embodied" calling and responding. It is a performative scholarly discourse, based: a performance. As a celebration of Asafo, those warriors who insisted their lives matter, the text is meant to be read and performed. 2022-07-20T10:08:07Z 2022-07-20T10:08:07Z 2022 book 9781580464093 9781648250446 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57556 eng Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781800105881.pdf 9781800105898.epub Boydell & Brewer University of Rochester Press 10.38051/9781800105898 10.38051/9781800105898 2f51bde7-eaae-4e18-9c1c-ad757a12abea 0cdc3d7c-5c59-49ed-9dba-ad641acd8fd1 9781580464093 9781648250446 Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP) University of Rochester Press 304 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation open access
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What is Asafo (music)? How and when is it performed? What is the state of this warrrior tradition that once served as the bedrock of the Akan, Ewe, and Ga societies in Ghana? How does Asafo enact the past and serve as an archive for the people? In an attempt to answer these questions, Walking with Asafo in Ghana investigates the musical pasts of Asafo. The book is an ethnography of walking, organized into eight chapters. Each chapter ends with a piece of creative writing in the author ethnographic voice in which she sums up the main ideas. It is Aduonum attempt at an anticolonial and decolonialist African musicology, one that subverts and decenters white racial framing of research, analysis, and presentation, disrupting how Euro-American concepts frame our ways of telling and experiencing Aduonum goal on this trajectory is to tell her story, create something new, and chart a new path. Through this fluid and complex book, she repositions African Elders&knowledge as epistemologies of decolonization and de-coloniality and centers the stories shared by local Fante scholars. The text is polyvocal, multimodal, multiperspective, performative, reflexive, and dialogic, informed by the structure of Asafo appellations, proverbs, her mentors tellings, and embodied" calling and responding. It is a performative scholarly discourse, based: a performance. As a celebration of Asafo, those warriors who insisted their lives matter, the text is meant to be read and performed.
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