Professor Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum
Walking with Asafo in Ghana: An Ethnographic Account of Kormantse Bentsir Warrior Music
Walking with Asafo in Ghana: An Ethnographic Account of Kormantse Bentsir Warrior Music
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The first full-length study of the musical pasts of Asafo warrior associations based on the author's "ways of walking" with local scholars along the Ghanaian littoral.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 406 pages
Publication date: 11 October 2022
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The first comprehensive study of the musical traditions of Asafo warrior associations, based on the author's immersive experiences with local scholars along the Ghanaian littoral.
What is Asafo ndwom (music)? How and when is it performed? What is the current state of this warrior tradition, once the foundation of the Akan, Ewe, and Ga societies in Ghana? How does Asafo enact the past and serve as an archive for the people?
In an attempt to answer these questions, Walking with Asafo in Ghana delves into the musical pasts of Asafo. This book is an ethnography of walking, structured into eight chapters. Each chapter concludes with a piece of creative writing in the author's ethnographic voice, summarizing the main ideas. It represents Aduonum's attempt at an anti-colonial and decolonial African musicology, one that challenges and decenters white racial framing of research, analysis, and presentation, disrupting how Euro-American concepts shape our ways of telling and experiencing ndwom.
Aduonum's objective on this trajectory is to tell her story, create something new, and chart a new path. Through this fluid and complex book, she re-positions African Elders' knowledge as epistemologies of decolonization and de-coloniality, centering the stories shared by local Fante scholars. The text is polyvocal, multimodal, multimperspective, performative, reflexive, and dialogic, informed by the structure of Asafo ndwom, appellations, proverbs, her mentors' tellings, and embodied calling and responding. It is a performative scholarly discourse, ndwom-based: a performance. As a celebration of Asafo, those warriors who insisted their lives mattered, the text is meant to be read and performed.
This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Weight: 580g
Dimension: 152 x 227 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781648250446
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