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Music of Sub-Saharan Africa	Book flyer (html)
An International Bibliography and Resource Guide By John Gray Price: $160.00 Binding: Cloth ISBN: 9780984413478 xvi, 1119 pages African Diaspora Press Pub. Date: March 2018 SUBJECTS Music Reference Ethnomusicology Dance African Studies Black/Diaspora Studies SERIES TITLE: Black Music Reference Series SERIES NUMBER: 8

AWARDS
Winner of the 2020 Vincent A. Duckles Award for 'best book-length bibliography or other research tool' from the Music Library Association

DESCRIPTION
For more than a quarter century African Music, the author's acclaimed 1991 bibliography, has been a standard reference work on the subject. Now, at long last, we have its companion. Comprised of entirely new material, Music of Sub-Saharan Africa offers users a comprehensive guide to the enormous literature which has emerged on sub-Saharan music and dance in recent decades.

This much expanded and revised edition is organized into five easy to navigate sections—General Works; Musical Instruments; Regional Studies; African Music Abroad; and Biographical and Critical Studies—allowing users to quickly access the information they need. It also includes a detailed subject index which offers a key to all of the book's sections and another way to quickly pinpoint citations by topic, genre, instrument type, geographical location or ethnic group.

Major Highlights include:

• Comprehensiveness. Includes more than 8000 entries published between 1990 and 2014 as well as a wealth of older material not included in African Music
• Linguistic diversity. Covers works in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian
• Enhanced coverage of African sources, many not indexed anywhere else
• Broader examination of topical studies ranging from gender and AIDS to politics, migration and postcolonial identity
• In-depth coverage of music education throughout sub-Saharan Africa
• Two sections devoted to local and regional studies. One focused on the 4 major subregions and 43 nation-states of sub-Saharan Africa, and another on the migration of these traditions to 36 countries abroad, including major centers in France, Great Britain, Germany, Israel, and the United States
• Detailed coverage of the subcontinent's panoply of musical styles—art and choral musics, religious music of all kinds (Christian, Jewish, Islamic and indigenous), and myriad popular genres, both well-established and newly emergent, e.g., highlife, jazz, taarab, and hip-hop
• An extensive biographical section documenting the careers of almost 1500 performers, composers, ethnomusicologists, and others. These range from pop icons such as Salif Keita and Miriam Makeba to literally hundreds of lesser-known oral poets, classical composers, and music industry figures. Also included are a select number of composers and performers from outside of Africa, e.g., Paul Simon, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Steve Reich, whose work has been deeply influenced by African traditions

An essential resource for all Africanist and music researchers, educators and librarians.

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION

"[African Music] is a book that belongs in every university library, as well as the personal library of serious scholars of African music. It is a remarkably well-researched bibliography...which should be of use to scholars of Africa in general and of African music in particular." —International Journal of African Historical Studies

"John Gray's African Music is a truly outstanding achievement. The work of an experienced bibliographer, [it] is likely to become the standard reference tool on African music for the next decade or so. With a staggering 5,802 entries, African Music supersedes all previously available bibliographies in scope, the clear organization of its data, and of course, its up-to-dateness." —African Music

TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction I.   GENERAL WORKS           Music and Education II.  MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS           Aerophones (Wind Instruments)           Chordophones (String Instruments)           Idiophones (Marimbas/Xylophones)           Lamellophones (Mbiras, Sanzas, etc.)           Membranophones (Drums) III. REGIONAL STUDIES            West Africa                Benin                Burkina Faso                Cameroon                Chad                Cote d'Ivoire                Equatorial Guinea                Gambia, The                Ghana                    Northern Ghana                    Southern Ghana                        Akan                        Ashanti                        Ewe                        Ga                        Nzema                Guinea                Guinea-Bissau                Liberia                Mali                    Bambara                Mauritania                Niger                Nigeria                    Central and Northern Nigeria                        Hausa                        Tiv                     Southern Nigeria                        Edo/Bini                        Ibibio                        Igbo                        Igede                        Urhobo                        Yoruba                Sao Tome and Principe                Senegal                Sierra Leone                Togo            Central Africa                Angola                Burundi                Central African Republic                     Banda                     Pygmies                Congo (Brazzaville)                Congo (Democratic Republic)                Gabon                Rwanda            Southern Africa                Botswana                Lesotho                Malawi                Mozambique                Namibia                South Africa                    Sotho                    Tsonga                    Venda                    Xhosa                    Zulu                Swaziland                Zambia                Zimbabwe                   Shona            East Africa                Djibouti                Eritrea                Ethiopia                Kenya                Somalia                Sudan                Tanzania                Uganda                   Ganda IV.  AFRICAN MUSIC ABROAD            Australia            Austria            Belgium            Brazil            Canada            China            Colombia            Cuba            Czech Republic            Denmark            Egypt            Finland            France            Germany            Great Britain            Haiti            India            Iraq            Israel            Italy            Jamaica            Mexico            Netherlands, The            Oman            Pakistan            Portugal            Qatar            Saudi Arabia            Serbia            Spain            Sweden            Switzerland            Ukraine            United Arab Emirates            United States            Yemen V.  BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES Sources Consulted Libraries, Museums, and Archives Appendix I: List of Individuals and Ensembles by Idiom/Occupation Appendix II: List of Individuals and Ensembles by Country Author Index Subject Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOHN GRAY is an independent scholar specializing in the performing arts and traditional religion of Africa and the African Diaspora. His previous music-related titles include Hip-Hop Studies; Carnival, Calypso and Steel Pan; Afro-Brazilian Music; Afro-Cuban Music; Jamaican Popular Music; From Vodou to Zouk; African Music; Fire Music; and Blacks in Classical Music. His work Baila! A Bibliographic Guide to Afro-Latin Dance Musics from Mambo to Salsa, was the recipient of the 2015 Vincent H. Duckles Award (for best book-length bibliography or reference work published in 2013) from the Music Library Association.