عنوان

Women's Voices Women's Songs: Dagbamba Music, Gender, and Culture

Number

TL48046

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Women's Voices Women's Songs: Dagbamba Music, Gender, and Culture

General Material Designation

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First Statement of Responsibility

Katharine Stuffelbeam Blankenship

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Los Angeles

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

254

Text of Note

Committee members: Schuh, Russell; Seeger, Anthony; Taylor, Timothy D.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-40966-6

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Ethnomusicology

Body granting the degree

University of California, Los Angeles

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

Muslim communities in West Africa provide a unique space for conducting research on musical cultures since issues concerning religion, gender, tradition, economics, and family can all intersect in musical performances. In the capital city of Tamale in Ghana's Northern Region, which is part of an area called Dagbon, women of the Dagbamba culture are at the heart of these multiple spaces of intersection. This project investigates how women actively participate in culture and tradition through music, what it means to them, and how knowledge is transmitted through this practice. Through an ethnographic study of the roles women play in Dagbamba musical culture and specific musical genres (such as tora), I examine the performance of music in Dagbamba women's lives and culture. I am interested in the different knowledge(s) produced by women through their involvement with music. Additionally, I utilize feminist standpoint theory to highlight women's lived experiences in order to explore this under documented aspect of West African culture.

African Studies; Music; Womens studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Communication and the arts;African music;Dagbamba;Ethnomusicology;Gender;Ghana;West Africa;Women and music

Oh, Jin Yong

DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell

Subdivision

Ethnomusicology

University of California, Los Angeles

Call Number

1641125140; 3667083

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[Thesis]

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