Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana

James Burns

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2009

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James Burns provides a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. Dzigbordi is part of a genre known as adekede, or female songs of redress, where women musicians critique gender relations in society. Burns uses audio and video i

ISBN-13
9780754664956
ISBN-10
0754664953
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year
2009
Publication date
2009-05-18
Pages
234
Dimensions
235x164x21
Weight
614