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Survey of Data on Senegambian Music. Senegambian Music and Performance
scholarship As my interest in Gambian drumming and dancing ...
Submitted by bobplasma on May 14, 2006
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Senegambian Music and Performance scholarship
As my interest in Gambian drumming and dancing grew throughout my graduate career, I realized that there was very little research completed and published about it. Roderic Knight presented the ethnomusicological community with the first in-depth research into Gambian music, particularly in the genealogy
of and performance practice of the kora (21-string spiked harp) and the role of the jali. Knight however, was also the first American scholar to publish on Mandinka kutiro drumming (Knight 1974). This article still stands as one of the only published articles in a scholarly journal that is devoted entirely to kutiro drumming and the dancing and singing that accompany it. Similar information is found in Knight’s contribution to the collection Performance Practice: Ethnomusicological Perspectives (Behague, ed. 1984). Knight’s germinal work is a musicological survey of the performance style including description of techniques of playing the instruments, short transcriptions of a few drum patterns, descriptions of the dances and singing style, as well as indigenous terminology.
Two decades later, Robert L. Thompson and Eric Charry have conducted research and written on Mandinka kutiro drumming. Charry’s recent publication (2000), is a comprehensive survey of music of Mande peoples throughout West Africa. An excellent addition to the small body of literature devoted to music of the Mande, Charry’s book fills a needed void. There has been no definitive text that successfully ties together the historical, linguistic, cultural, and social links that relate the music of Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea to one another. Charry’s text now stands along side the work of Nketia (1974) Berliner (1978), Chernoff (1979), Stone (1982), Waterman (1990), Erlmann (1996), Kisliuk (1998), as a landmark contribution to Africanist ethnomusicology. While each of these texts are concerned with different subject...
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