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4 avril 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifra.615
- isbn: 9789782015389
- eisbn: 9791092312133
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Bode Omojola, « 8. Art Music in Ghana: An Introduction », Institut français de recherche en Afrique, ID : 10.4000/books.ifra.615
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The historical development of modern Ghanaian Art Music is very similar to that of Nigeria. As in Nigeria, the activities of British colonial administrators, missionaries and teachers helped to introduce and consolidate the practice and consumption of European liturgical Christian music as well as European classical music — the two musical genres — which provided the foundations for the emergence of modern Ghanaian Art music. As in Nigeria, the most significant factor in the growth of Europea...