Composition in Africa And the Diaspora Volume 2 by Akin Euba & Cynthia Tse Kimberlin, Eds. Published by the MRI Press 2010   202 pages, ISBN 978-1-933459-02-8 $16.00 per copy plus shipping

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Historical Views of African Music Composition 

• One Hundred Years of West African Highlife: ‘African Guitarism’ (John Collins)
• Towards a New Stylistic Identity: An Analytical Overview of Ghanaian Contemporary Choral Music (Eric Kwadwo O. Beeko)

African Music in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

• Asia Meets Africa: Cross-Cultural Communication Through the Rainforest World Music Festival, Sarawak (Tan Sooi Beng)
• African Music Study in China (Li Xin)
• Computer and Drum in New Music (an English composer’s perspective on African music) (Geoffery Poole)
• Music, Ethnicity, and Reinvention (Fernando Maglia)

Oral and Written Compositional Processes

• The Oral and the Written – Dischordant Siblings? (Notes on African literary music composition) (Meki Nzewi)

Composing Music in Divergent Environments

• Musical Folklorism – Creative Ethnomusicology – Intercultural Composition: Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912) and Kwabena Nketia (b.1921) (Taras Filenko)
• Black Symbolisms Embedded in Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata Op. 47 for Violin and Piano (Paul Konye)
• Jazz Legend James Moody – The Making of an Icon (Ursula Broschke Davis)

Contributors

Index