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...
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While each of these texts are concerned with different subject matter, as well as theoretical, methodological foci, each scholar has given the field of ethnomusicology extraordinary insight into African music, culture, and society. It is my intention to create a text that engages with Charry's work (and Knight's to some degree) on two different levels...
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