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13 - The Musical Rhythm of Agbadza Songs

from Part V - Rhythm in Global Musics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
David Locke
Edited by
Russell Hartenberger  and
Ryan McClelland
Russell Hartenberger
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Ryan McClelland
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Agbadza is a genre of performance art that originated among the Ewe people (Ghana, Togo). The drumming features musical interactions between lead and response drums; in songs, poems are set to tunes that have a variety of call-and-response arrangements between several song leaders and a larger choral group. As discussed here, the rhythm of the vocal music contributes to the overall temporal vitality of an Agbadza performance.

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The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm , pp. 217 - 240
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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