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Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. By Kofi Agawu. New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xxii, 266. $85.00.

While many Africanist historians have been turning their attention to music and different forms of cultural expression, this interest has not been reciprocated by musicologists who to date have shown little knowledge of historical scholarship in Africa. The title of the eminent Ghanian musicologist Kofi Agawu's latest book Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions suggests that Agawu seeks to reverse this trend. However, his book doesn't ...

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