Doing Chumburung songs—A taxonomy of styles Gillian Hansford ...
Doing Chumburung songs—A taxonomy of styles Gillian Hansford ...
Doing Chumburung songs—A taxonomy of styles Gillian Hansford ...
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Abstract<br />
The author explores the words and themes <strong>of</strong> different types <strong>of</strong> song sung by the<br />
<strong>Chumburung</strong> people <strong>of</strong> Ghana. She adopts Okpewho’s suggestion that songs are<br />
different by their context, form and themes (1992), but divides them into categories<br />
based solely on context. She details each type <strong>of</strong> song according to <strong>Chumburung</strong><br />
labelling, and gives examples. Frequent reference is made to work by Nketia on Ashanti<br />
songs. Then a <strong>taxonomy</strong> is drawn to show the context, form and theme <strong>of</strong> all the types<br />
<strong>of</strong> song.<br />
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