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" Women's Voices Women's Songs: Dagbamba Music, Gender, and Culture "
Katharine Stuffelbeam Blankenship
DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803263
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TL48046
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1641125140; 3667083
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Oh, Jin Yong
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Women's Voices Women's Songs: Dagbamba Music, Gender, and Culture\ Katharine Stuffelbeam BlankenshipDjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell
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University of California, Los Angeles
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2014
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Ph.D.
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Ethnomusicology
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2014
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254
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Committee members: Schuh, Russell; Seeger, Anthony; Taylor, Timothy D.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-40966-6
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Muslim communities in West Africa provide a unique space for conducting research on musical cultures since issues concerning religion, gender, tradition, economics, and family can all intersect in musical performances. In the capital city of Tamale in Ghana's Northern Region, which is part of an area called Dagbon, women of the Dagbamba culture are at the heart of these multiple spaces of intersection. This project investigates how women actively participate in culture and tradition through music, what it means to them, and how knowledge is transmitted through this practice. Through an ethnographic study of the roles women play in Dagbamba musical culture and specific musical genres (such as <i>tora</i>), I examine the performance of music in Dagbamba women's lives and culture. I am interested in the different knowledge(s) produced by women through their involvement with music. Additionally, I utilize feminist standpoint theory to highlight women's lived experiences in order to explore this under documented aspect of West African culture.
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African Studies; Music; Womens studies
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Social sciences;Communication and the arts;African music;Dagbamba;Ethnomusicology;Gender;Ghana;West Africa;Women and music
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DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell
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EthnomusicologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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