Female Song Tradition and the Akan of Ghana: The Creative Process in Nnwonkoro [Hardcover]

Kwasi Ampene (Author)

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Hardcover: 234 pages
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd; illustrated edition edition (Oct 15 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0754631478
ISBN-13: 978-0754631477
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,255,078 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Nnwonkoro is a genre of women's song found among the Akan speaking peoples of Ghana. Based on extensive field work this book investigates the nature of composition in oral culture, together with issues such as the scope of the poetic imagination and the transformation process that accompany's modernisation.

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Nnwonkoro is a female song tradition confined to adult Akan women in Ghana who in the past sang to entertain themselves in the night when the moon shone bright in the sky. Read the first page

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