Composing the music of Africa - Malcolm Floyd

This book brings together scholars and composers from many parts of Africa and beyond to investigate the range of processes involved in the creation of African music. - - It looks at the way specialists put together music for their instruments or voices. The ways in which communities may be involved in composition are also examined, and there are discussions of traditional music and its composition from particular parts of North, South, East and West Africa. - - Contemporary composers talk about their involvement with African music as part of their material or as their inspiration, including methods of incorporation and assimilation, and their effectiveness. - - This is a book for all those interested in the great range and variety of composition in an immensely diverse continent.