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Women's Songs from West Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780253010179)
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Thomas A. Hale
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xExploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and beyond, the essays attest to the importance of women's contributions to the most widespread form of verbal art in Africa.
Author: Thomas A. Hale
ISBN-10: 0253010179
ISBN-13: 9780253010179
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2014 pg. 457
By Thomas A. Hale
xThomas A. Hale is Liberal Arts Professor of African, French, and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Griots and Griottes (IUP, 2007) and editor (with Aissata G. Sidikou) of Women's Voices from West Africa: An Anthology of Songs from the Sahel (IUP, 2012).
Aissata G. Sidikou is Assistant Professor of French at the United States Naval Academy. She is author of Recreating Words, Reshaping Worlds: The Verbal Art of Women from Niger, Mali, and Senegal.
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