Professor Damascus Kafumbe - Class of 1960 Music Lecture

As the preeminent African musicologist J. H. Kwabena Nketia noted in 1961, meaning in African music exists as a series of modes and perspectives rather than as one static and unified concept. Accordingly, one must examine the multitude of statements, interpretations, and relationships associated with musical performance and practice. Moreover, one must treat these elements as fundamental aspects of the way musical meanings take shape rather than ...