Selected Essays
and Other Publications
“The Stones Ethnographers Trip Over:
Thoughts on Colin Turnbull's The
Forest People.”
<PDF
file> Translated into German as “Die Stolpersteine der
Ethnographen," in Wegmarken:
Eine Bibliotek der Ethnologische Imagination. Trickster
Jahrbuch. Munich: Peter Hammer Verlag,
1998, pp. 22-28. Reprinted
in "Ethnographic Highs: The
Forest People and African
Rhythm and African Sensibility," by John Chernoff
and T. David Brent, in First
of the Month (April 2012):
http://www.firstofthemonth.org/ethnographic-highs-the-forrest-people-african-rhythm-and-african-sensibility/.
"Performance
and Ethnography <HTML>."
Keynote Address to the Southern Plains Chapter of the Society for
Ethnomusicology at the University of North Texas, 2009.
Earlier version presented in 1990 at the Performance International
Conference, Department of Performance
Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
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/ HTML >
"Ideas of Culture and the Challenge of Music <HTML>," in Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines. Edited by Jeremy MacClancy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. 377-98. <PDF / HTML>
"Music and Historical Consciousness among the
Dagbamba of Ghana,"
in Enchanting
Powers: Music in the World’s Religions.
Edited by Lawrence Sullivan. Cambridge, MA: Center
for the
Study of World Religions and Harvard University Press, 1997, pp.
91-120. Also in Approaches
to African Musics.
Edited by Enrique Cámara de Landa and Silvia Martínez
García. Valladolid: University of Valladolid, Centro Buendia,
2006, pp. 137-68.
“Spiritual_Foundations_of_Dagbamba_Religion_and_Culture.” Authorized version of the essay.
"Paul Berliner's The
Soul of Mbira
Twenty Years On: A Retrospect." African Music 7,
no. 3 (1996): 91-95.
"Goonji
(Fiddle) Music in Dagbon."
Notes and
Recording information for "Master
Fiddlers of Dagbon." Rounder Records 5086 (2001).
"Dagbamba
Drumming Music."
Notes and Recording information for "Master Drummers of Dagbon, vols
1 and 2." Rounder Records 5016 (1984, 1992) and
5046 (1992).
"Cities as the Heavens of This Earth <HTML>," from Hustling Is Not
Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2003, pp. 45-62. <PDF>
"William and
Abena <HTML> , an excerpt from Hustling Is Not Stealing."
Introduction by Benj DeMott. First of the Month 6,
no. 1 (winter 2004), 15-17. <PDF>
"A Bad Sickness <HTML>,
an excerpt from Hustling Is Not
Stealing."
Introduction by Benj DeMott. First of the Month 4,
no. 1 (6.1.2002), 17-19. <PDF>
"Tales of Groove <HTML>,"
from Exchange Is Not Robbery:
More Stories of an African Bar Girl. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 232-42. <PDF>
"Issahaku
and the Fulani Thieves <HTML>," from Exchange Is Not Robbery: More
Stories of an African Bar Girl. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 214-21. <PDF>
"A Nice
Prison in Togo <PDF>," from Hustling Is Not
Stealing: Stories of an
African Bar Girl. Chicago:
University of Chicago
Press, 2003, pp.
402-40. <PDF>
Review of David Coplan, In
Township Tonight! (1986). <PDF>