Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana

James Burns provides a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. Dzigbordi is part of a genre known as adekede, or female songs of redress, where women musicians critique gender relations in society. Burns uses audio and video i

James Burns is an Assistant Professor of Music and Africana Studies at Binghamton University, USA.

Contents: Introduction: our music has become a divine spirit; Daughters of the drum; The dance space; We are a community dance-drumming group; Doing it for everyone to see; Glossary; Interviews; References; Index.