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Abridged paperback edition of Africa, volume 1 of The Garland encyclopedia of world music, with the addition of a new article, 'Exploring African Music' as well as articles by Alex Perullo, Gregory Barz and Judah Cohen, Daniel B. Reed, Jeffrey A. Summit, Jane Goodman, and Clara Henderson. The reed article is adapted from previous publication by Indiana University Press"--T.p. verso.

Dried millet breaking, " sung by the bard at the end of one episode ofthis Woi epic of the Kpelle people of Liberia, represents a formula that breaks theflow of events and introduces the epic's complex temporal scaffolding. Examining thesinging, narration, dramatic performance, instrumental accompaniment, and timing ofthe Woi epic, Ruth M. Stone reveals that the Kpelle show time flux through changingtimbres, motion, and spatial metaphors in wa...