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

by Eric Charry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226101622
• ISBN13: 9780226101620
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 531 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"