The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music
(2023)
Thesis
Gardner, J. A. The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music. (Thesis). SOAS University of London
It has become commonplace today to invoke the word improvisation when discussing the soloistic melodic dimensions of the music of the kora, the twenty-one-string bridge harp of the Mande people of West Africa. Typically, the term is used to denote th... Read More about The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music.