[ANPPOM-L] Edição do MTO, Rhythm: Africa and Beyond

[Martha Ulhôa]

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http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.10.16.4/toc.16.4.html

*Rhythm: Africa and Beyond* is a special volume that comprises twelve
entries. The five substantial articles represent the work of some of the
foremost experts on the intersection of analysis and West African music:
James Burns, David Locke, Rainer Polak, Matthew Butterfield, and Martin
Scherzinger. The first four of these authors focus their attention
exclusively on drumming, with Butterfield demonstrating a significant
overlap in methodologies, repertoires, and influences by moving beyond
Africa to explore timekeeping in jazz. Scherzinger, on the other hand,
discusses temporal organization in mbira music from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Justin London’s focused commentary draws additional connections between the
articles, pointing out that they all “involve detailed accounts and analysis
of performances and performance technique, both qualitative (Locke, Burns,
Scherzinger) as well as quantitative (Polak, Butterfield).” The authors in
this volume also employ an impressive array of multimedia to support their
work. From online interactive mixers to beautiful video footage, this volume
provides resources that will be useful in the classroom and beyond.

The five commentaries situate the work of this volume within a wide range of
perspectives, from the purely music theoretical, to the ethnomusicological,
to that of the more generalized Africanist. Although Michael Tenzer and Kofi
Agawu offer a consideration that easily steps between disciplinary
boundaries, the commentaries by Cynthia Tse Kimberlin, Justin London, Janet
Sturman, and Michael Vercelli are equally willing to take on multifarious
repertoires and analytical approaches. Most importantly, this volume
provides a significant and lasting entry into a dialogue that has begun to
take traction throughout the broader musicological community.

All *MTO* volumes dating back to our first issue in 1993 can be accessed
from the contents page at
http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/issues.html. Thank you, as always,
for your support of *MTO - a Journal of the Society for Music Theory*.


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Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa
Instituto Villa Lobos - UNIRIO

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