Drumming in Akan Communities of Ghana

Edinburgh: Published on behalf of the University of Ghana by Thomas Nelson, 1963. x, 212 pages: illustrations, map, music; 25 cm; bibliographical references (pages 204-205). Modest bump to upper outer corner of boards and leaves; personal owner name, else very good(+) thus in partly upper edge-chipped and edge-crinkled VG(-) jacket in archival mylar. Hardcover.

Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia (1921 – 2019) was a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer. Considered Africa's premier musicologist, during his lifetime, he was called a "living legend" and "easily the most published and best known authority on African music and aesthetics in the world", with more than 200 publications and 80 musical compositions to his credit.—Wikipedia.

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