Record Details

GYILEAS AGENRE IN DAGAABALAND, GHANA

Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title GYILEAS AGENRE IN DAGAABALAND, GHANA
 
Creator FELICIA ANNIN, EMMANUEL BOAHEN,
 
Description The gyil (Xylophone) is a tuned idiophone, the principal instrument for Dagaabas for both religious and social ceremonies. This paper examines the place of gyil genre in Dagaaba culture. This study unveils the rich cultural traditions of the Dagaaba people of Winneba and Kasoa in the Central Region of Ghana; an anthropological documentation formed an important part of the study. The contextual meaning of the composition used in this study was based on Akuno’s (1997) theory on social functions. Thirty-nine Dagaaba gyil folk songs were collected from traditional performers, through purposeful and snowball sampling techniques. Songs were recorded, transcribed and analysed for dominant traditional musical features. Rhythmic and melodic accuracy of the transcribed songs were ascertained by play backs using FINALE notation software. The focus of this paper is therefore based on the Origin, Contextual Setting, Organology, Construction as well as the linguistic analysis of some selected songs
 
Publisher Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities
 
Date 2015-09-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/14
10.15520/jassh10314
 
Source Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities; Vol 1 No 03 (2015)
2395-6542
10.15520/jassh103
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/14/14
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2015 Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities