Language Plots in Musical Spaces: A Response to Adams Bodomo and Manolete Mora

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2007-07

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Empirical Musicology Review

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The commentary begins with by briefly reviewing UNESCO’s activities in the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of cultural traditions worldwide, and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Suggestions are then made regarding how the observations reported by Bodomo & Mora (2007) might be augmented by various theoretical, musical, and ethnolinguistic perspectives. The commentary also addresses challenges of designing and conducting research regarding integrative performance events and the construction, communication, and interpretation of cultural meaning.

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West Africa, song, dance, story, oral culture, Dagaare, Dagaaba, bawaa

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Empirical Musicology Review, v2 n3 (July 2007), 103-109