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- Instructor
- Prof. Patricia Tang
- Term
- Fall 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 7 other files · 5 web pages
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- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21M.293 Music of Africa, Fall 2005, Prof. Patricia Tang — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture 2: The Field of Ethnomusicology, the Concept of “Soundscapes” and its Application to the Study of World Music Building a Cross-Cultural Musical Vocabulary
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Lecture 3: Organology and Instruments: The Sachs-Hornbostel System of Instrument Classification
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Lecture 4: African Music: A Review of Ethnomusicological Literature
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Lecture 5: Senegalese History, Culture, and Music Focus on Wolof Griots, Masters of the Sabar Drum
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Lecture 6: Popular Music in Senegal: mbalax and Hip-Hop
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Lecture 7: Sabar Drumming: An Introduction to Basic Hand Techniques, Rhythms, and bàkks
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Lecture 8: Sabar Drum Workshop with Artist-in-Residence, Lamine Touré
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Lecture 9: Interlude: Southern Africa
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Lecture 10: Music of the Mande: The jali and his Instruments
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Lecture 11: Guest Lecture - Demonstration by Balla Kouyate, a Balafon Player from New York City
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Lecture 12: Malian Superstars: Salif Keita, Oumou Sangare and Ali Farke Touré
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Lecture 13: Midterm Exam
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Lecture 14: Music Cultures of the Ewe and Dagbamba
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Lecture 15: Case Study: Agbekor (Ewe)
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Lecture 16: Urban Music Roots: Highlife and Palm-wine Music
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Lecture 17: Interlude: Central Africa
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Lecture 18: Music and Identity: jùjú and fúji Bands
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Lecture 19: Music and Politics: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Afro-Beat
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Lecture 20: Music and Ritual: Hausa Music and the bori Ceremony
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Lecture 21: Interlude: East Africa
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Lecture 25: Conclusions
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