Worship Music & Culture : The Case of the Songhai of Niger /

"Music is an exciting aspect of African cultures south of the Sahara, abounding in creativity and full of life and movement. Christian worship music was added to the music mix by missionaries from Europe and North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it has retained much of it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeValve, John R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Regnum Books International, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Music > Religious aspects.
Religion.
Songhai (African people)
Musique > Aspect religieux.
Chant > Aspect social > Niger.
Chant > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Songhaï (Peuple d'Afrique) > Niger > Religion.
Songhaï (Peuple d'Afrique) > Niger > Musique > Histoire et critique.
Musique d'eglise > Niger.
Singing > Social aspects > Niger.
Singing > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Songhai (African people) > Niger > Religion.
Songhai (African people) > Niger > Music > History and criticism.
Church music > Niger.
Niger.
Niger > Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Historical, cultural, and theoretical foundations. A brief history of the Songhai ; Ethnomusicology ; Songhai music-culture ; Worship, theology, and music ; Protestant Songhai music culture ; Grid/group cultural theory and five historical/cultural influences
  • Cultural theory and five Songhai subcultures. Traditional music-culture ; Islamic sub-culture ; The national sub-culture ; The Western/global/modern subculture ; Protestant church subculture
  • Application. The five subcultures and change ; Grid/group and the logophonic principle ; Grid/group, identity, and music.

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