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Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa

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Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa - Charry, Eric S
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With "Mande Music, " Eric Charry offers the most comprehensive source available on one of Africa's richest and most sophisticated music cultures. Using resources as disparate as early Arabic travel accounts, oral histories, and archival research as well as his own extensive studies in Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and the Gambia, Charry traces this music culture from its origins in the thirteenth-century Mali empire to the recording studios of Paris and New York. He focuses on the four major spheres of Mande music--hunter's music, ...

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