Notes on a Postcolonial Musicology: Kofi Agawu and the Critique of Cultural Difference [Agawu, Kofi. 2003. Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. New York and London: Routledge, 304 pp.]
No. 75 (2003), Book Reviews
No. 75 (2003)

Notes on a Postcolonial Musicology: Kofi Agawu and the Critique of Cultural Difference [Agawu, Kofi. 2003. Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. New York and London: Routledge, 304 pp.]

Book Reviews
https://doi.org/10.7916/cm.v0i75.4948
Published 2003-03-01
  • Martin Scherzinger
Martin Scherzinger
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Scherzinger, M. (2003). Notes on a Postcolonial Musicology: Kofi Agawu and the Critique of Cultural Difference [Agawu, Kofi. 2003. Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. New York and London: Routledge, 304 pp.]. Current Musicology, (75). https://doi.org/10.7916/cm.v0i75.4948
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Abstract

Kofi Agawu's new book Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions stands in a consciously awkward relationship to traditional ethno-graphic writing on music. Ethnomusicological discourse is characterized by a carefully plotted regimen of priorities, which tends to conduct inquiry away from Western-style music analysis towards anthropological models.

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