Patricia Tang, Masters of the Sabar: Wolof percussionists of Senegal.(Book review)

Africa | March 22, 2009| | Copyright

PATRICIA TANG, Masters of the Sabar: Wolof percussionists of Senegal. Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press (pb $27.95--978 1 59213 420 5; hb $79.50--978 1 59213 419 9). 2007, 209 pp.

Tang's first book is based on the research she conducted for her PhD in ethnomusicology. As such the text profits from a substantial period of fieldwork and a focus on a subject that has not previously been given significant attention: Wolof griot percussionists performing the Sabar repertoire in Senegal. As she says in her introduction, the lack of academic attention accorded Wolof ...

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