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Content
- Preface
- CD List
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- Traveling to West Africa
- Journeys
- Tools
- West Africa in Perspective
- Music in the Arts and Life
- Style Areas
- Ideas about Performance
- Musical Instruments
- Resources
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- Performance Facets
- Vocal Facets in Epic Performance
- Instrumental Facets in Horn Ensemble Performance
- Continity in Performance: Woni Ensemble
- Vocal and Instrumental Facets in Bush Clearing Songs
- Parallels in the Arts
- Faceting: Cutting off the Edge
- Cloth Pattern
- Masks and Carved Figures
- Greeting Sequences
- Obscuring Facets
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- Voices: Layered Tone Colors
- Timbre in African Music
- Instruments: The Sounds of a Triangular Frame-Zither
- The Centrality of the Voice
- Instruments: Musical Bow
- Sound Texture in Epic
- Social Resonance
- Instruments: Inanga and the Whispered Song
- Other Timbral Dimensions of Sound
- Symbolic Associations of Tone Color
- Cloth Color
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- Part-Counterpart: Call and Response
- Call and Response Variations
- Non-Overlapping Call and Reponse
- Rice Planting Song
- Children's Counting Song
- Kpelle Rubber Camp Music
- Entertainment Love Song
- Overlapping Call and Response
- Musical Dramatic Folktale (Chante Fable)
- Epic Performance
- Dialogic Relationships
- Relation to Resonance
- Drummer-Supporting Drummer
- Gifts that Keep the Performance Going
- Chief-Counterpoint
- Poro-Sande
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- Time and Polyrhythm
- A Master Drummer's Life History
- Fitting the Pieces Together
- Rhythmic Patterns in the Epic
- Contingency
- Action
- Inner Time
- Kpelle Performance in Liberia
- The Island of Lamu, East Africa
- The Shona of Southern Africa
- The Spiritual World
- The Larger Process
- Life History
- Time in Local Life
- Balancing the Quantitative and Qualitative
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- Surveying the Trip: Cutting the Edge
- Central Themes
- Glossary
- References
- CD Notes
- Resources
