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Negotiating the music-theory/African-music nexus: a political critique of Ethnomusicological anti-formalism and a strategic analysis of the harmonic patterning of the Shona Mbira song Nyamaropa.

Perspectives of New Music

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The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

--Theodor W. Adorno

Why couldn't the world that concerns us--be a fiction? ... Shouldn't philosophers be permitted to rise above faith in grammar?

--Friedrich Nietzsche

"Participant observation" serves as a shorthand for a continuous tacking between the "inside" and the "outside" of events: on the one hand grasping the sense of specific occurrences and gestures empathetically, on the other stepping back to situate these meanings in wider contexts.

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