African Music A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art, and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa

Subjects:

• The Arts » Ethnomusicology
• Multicultural Studies » African Studies

Reviews:

• John Gray's African Music is a truly outstanding achievement. The work of an experienced bibliographer, Gray's bibliography is likely to become the standard reference tool on African music for the next decade or so. With a staggering 5,802 entries, African Music supersedes all previously available bibliographies in scope, the clear organization of its data, and of course, in its up-to-dateness.
  —Folk Music Journal (U.K.)
• Now Africanists have a reference tool that provides information on a large body of both major and obscure sources of various genres of African music.
  —Choice
• This guide is the most comprehensive bibliography on African music currently available. John Gray knows the dangers of defining "African music" too narrowly, so he adopts an approach in which nothing, in principle, is left out.
  —Yearbook from Traditional Music
• It is a remarkably well-researched bibliography of print materials on African music, including books, dissertations, journal and newspaper articles. He has done a masterful job. . . . John Gray has compiled an excellent reference work that should be of use to scholars of Africa in general and of African music in particular.
  —The International J. of African Historical Studies
• African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art, and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa, by John Gray (499 pages, March 1991), covers works from 1732 to the present and offers a comprehensive resource for students and scholars seeking to understand the increasingly popular musics of Africa. The bibliography is divided into six sections: works on cultural policy and the performing arts; ethnomusicology; village or rural music; country or regional studies of African pop music and biographical and critical studies of 275 popular musicians and groups; acculturated or art music traditions; and African church music. Three appendices cover reference works on African culture, archives and research centers, and a selected discography. Four indexes--ethnic group, subject, artist, and author--complete the work and provide a key to its 5,800 entries.
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  C & RL News
• John Gray's African Music is a truly outstanding achievement. The work of an experienced bibliographer, Gray's bibliography is likely to become the standard reference tool on African Music for the next decade or so. With a staggering 5,802 entries, African Music supersedes all previously available bibliographies in scope, the clear organization of its data, and of course, in its up-to-dateness.
  —Folk Music Journal
• African Music is a remarkable achievement. It is by far the most comprehensive bibliographic guide to the subject, and a basic resource for any individual or institution committed to research in African music and culture.
  —Notes

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Cultural History and the Arts
• Ethnomusicology
• African Traditional Music
• African Popular Music
• African Art Music
• African Church Music
• Appendix I: Reference Works
• Appendix II: Archives and Research Centers
• Appendix III: Selected Discography
• Ethnic Group Index
• Subject Index
• Artist Index
• Author Index