Musical Bows of Southern Africa

<i>Musical Bows of Southern Africa</i> brings together current scholarly research that documents a rich regional diversity as well as cultural relationships in bow music knowledge and contemporary practices. The book is framed as a critical appraisal of traditional ethnomusicological studies of the region - complementing pioneering studies and charting contexts for a contemporary engagement with bow music as an exchangeable cultural practice. Each contribution is written by an expert in the field and collectively demonstrates the multidisciplinary potential of bow music highlighting the several fields of knowledge that intersect with bow music including ethno-organology applied ethnomusicology composition music literacy social development cultural economics history orality performance and language.