African Music Books

New and Published Books

1. The Garland Handbook of African Music

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Ruth M. Stone

   Series: Garland Handbooks of World Music

   The Garland Handbook of African Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa, (1997). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Africa and examine the ways in which music helps to define the...

   Published June 23rd 2008 by Routledge
2. Focus: Music of South Africa

   2nd Edition

   By Carol A. Muller

   Series: Focus on World Music Series

   Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own...

   Published April 8th 2008 by Routledge
3. African Diaspora

   A Musical Perspective

   Edited by Ingrid Monson

   Series: Critical and Cultural Musicology

   The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music....

   Published June 8th 2003 by Routledge
4. Representing African Music

   Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions

   By Kofi Agawu

   The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is an agreed-upon meaning,...

   Published May 15th 2003 by Routledge
5. The African Diaspora

   A Musical Perspective

   Edited by Ingrid Monson

   Series: Critical and Cultural Musicology

   The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. Featured here are...

   Published July 26th 2000 by Routledge