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Fiddling in West Africa JACQUELINE COGDELL DJEDJE Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures Fiddling in West Africa JACQU ELI N E CO GDELL D J E D J E Fiddling in West Africa Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu© 2008 by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell. Fiddling in West Africa : touching the spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba cultures / Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ), discography (p. ), videography (p. ), and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34924-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21929-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Music—Africa, West—History and criticism. 2. Fiddling— Africa, West. I. Title. ML3760.D55 2007 787.20966—dc22 2007020501 1 2 3 4 5 13 12 11 10 09 08 A two CD compilation of music from West Africa, which includes music examples discussed in this book, has been published by UCLA Ethnomusicology Publications . At the time of this book’s publication, it is available for purchase at http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/publications/index.htm. Dedicated to Dominique, my daughter, And in memory of my teacher, Salisu Mahama, and other fiddlers who have passed on. ...

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