Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana (Record no. 3649)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02036 a2200253 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 1351956876 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250317111555.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250312042016GB eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781351956871 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Source of stock number/acquisition | Taylor & Francis |
| Terms of availability | GBP 42.99 |
| Form of issue | BB |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | 01 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | AVL |
| Source | thema |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | AVG |
| Source | bic |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | MUS023010 |
| Source | bisac |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | MUS000000 |
| Source | bisac |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | 788.9209667 |
| Source | bisac |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Joseph S.Kaminski |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana |
| Remainder of title | Culture, Tradition, and Sound Barrage |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 20161205 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 232 p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Expansion of summary note | Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral traditions, written accounts, archaeological evidence, transcriptions and linguistic analyses to situate the Asante trumpet tradition in historical culture. There are seven ivory trumpet ensembles in residence at the Asante Manhyia Palace in Kumase, and ivory trumpets are blown at every Akan court. The Asante trumpets, which are made from elephant tusks, are symbols of Asante strength and have an important role in Asante cosmology. Surrogate speech is performed via lipped tones through a tusk in praise of the Asante royal ancestors and the living Asante king. This book contains transcriptions and analyses of surrogate speech texts and their accompanying ensemble songs. When several ensembles play simultaneously as a representation of power, they make staggered entrances, beginning separate songs in order. This results in a simultaneous performance of separate songs. This phenomenon, which Kaminski has termed 'sound-barrage', is an ancient aesthetic, and is performed to protect the kingdom and the ancestors. It is both spiritual and acoustical. This 'sound barrage' is believed to act in the metaphysical world, dispelling evil spirits from court rituals, ancestor venerations, and funerals, for there is a spirit in the sound. |
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