The study of African music is a study at once of unity and diversity. The range of indigenous musical resources and practices found on this vast continent is as

In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional

The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music,

It is customary in the Western world for people to use the term 'African music' as if it were a single clearly identifiable phenomenon. One should not be surpri

The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumpti