AFRICAN MUSICVOLUME 92014NUMBER 4
V O L U M E 9 2014 N U M B E R 4
AFRICAN MUSIC
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Prof. Diane Thram, Ph.D. (Indiana University) Editorial Board
Prof. Kofi Agawu, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Prof. Daniel Avorgbedor, University of Ghana, Legon
Prof Christopher Ballantine, Fellow of the University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban Prof. James Burns, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
Prof. Eric Charry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Prof. Veit Erlmann, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Prof. Steven Friedson, Univesity of North Texas, Denton, TX Prof. Deborah Kapchan, New York University, New York, NY Prof. Jaco Kruger, North-West University, Potchefstrom Prof. David Locke, Tufts University, Boston, MA Prof. Meki Nzewi, University of Pretoria, Pretoria
Dr. Patricia Opondo, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban Dr. Janet Topp-Fargion, British Museum, London
Prof. Emeritus Andrew Tracey, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
African Music (ISSN 0065-4019) is an annual peer-reviewed journal published by the International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa. The journal publishes original articles, not previously published, pertaining to contextualized studies of African music and related arts.
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Front cover: Nelson Ochieng Orwa (1943-2014). As a guitarist in the Ogara Boys Band in the 1960s, Ochieng “Nelly” Orwa helped pioneer the benga style that emerged as Kenya’s pre-eminent popular music genre in the coming decades.
Although he had faded into obscurity, he recently made a successful comeback. In the last years of his life he performed and recorded actively in Nairobi in association with Ketebul Music, thereby sharing his deep knowledge of benga with a new generation of Kenyan musicians and listeners. (Photo: Martin Muyeshi © Ketebul Music)
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AFRICAN MUSIC
JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF AFRICAN MUSIC
VOLUME 9 2014 NUMBER 4
CONTENTS
FROM THE EDITOR ...4 EPHRAIM AMU’S “BONWERE KENTEŊWENE”: A CELEBRATION OF GHANAIAN
TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, AND ARTISTRY
George Worlasi Kwasi Dor ...Ghana ...7 MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE 2013–14 JOHN HAMILTON FULTON LECTURE IN THE
LIBERAL ARTS: A PUBLIC CONVERSATION WITH ANGELIQUE KIDJO
Damascus Kafumbe ...USA ...36 CONTESTING CULTURAL MEANING IN A POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICAN
HIV/AIDS MUSIC EVENT
Austin Okigbo ...South Africa ...54 MUSIC AND NOTIONS OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE HUMANITARIAN WORK OF
TWO NGOs IN UGANDA
Allan Mugishagwe ...Uganda ... 71 CONTINUITIES AND INNOVATION IN LUO SONG STYLE: CREATING THE BENGA
BEAT IN KENYA 1960 to 1995
Ian Eagleson ...Kenya ... 91 CHOREOGRAPHING CAPE TOWN THROUGH GOEMA MUSIC AND DANCE
Francesca Inglese ...South Africa ... 123 BOOK REVIEWS
Percival R. Kirby, Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa.
Andrew Tracey ...146 Samuel Charters, A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora.
Lee Watkins ... 147 Jean Ngoya Kidula, Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song.
Andrew-John Bethke ...149
George Worlasi Kwasi Dor, West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities: An Ethnomusicological Perspective.
Damascus Kafumbe ...152
Mwenda Ntarangwi, East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization. Luis Gimenez ... 154
Austin ’Maro Emielu, Nigerian Highlife Music. Onyee N. Nwankkpa ... 158
Peter Malik, compiler, Dance to the Drum of Our Home: A Book of Dinka Children’s Songs Angela Impey, producer, Songs of the Dinka of South Sudan. CD. Mandy Carver ... 162
Joseph S. Kaminski, Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana: Culture, Tradition and Sound Barrage. Andrew Tracey ...164
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE ...166
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES ... 167
PUBLICATIONS OF ILAM ...168 TRACKLIST ... 176
Th e opinions expressed by contributors are personal and are not necessarily those of the International Library of African Music.
