Educational resouces on traditional African music: An annotated bibliography of contemporary offerings and suggestions for their use in the classroom

From: The Journal of Negro Education | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Christian D. J. Horton, Fort Valley State University*

In their eagerness to develop proposals for curriculum and instruction, contemporary researchers and developers of resources on traditional African music often fail to understand that available resource materials must be critiqued in terms of the schools and students for whom they are primarily intended. Toward that end, this annotated bibliography was compiled to combat both the dearth of musicological resources on traditional African music and teacher-educators' lack of knowledge about these resources. It examines significant works ...

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