African Rhythm: a northern Ewe perspective.(Review) (book review)

KOFI V. AGAWU, African Rhythm: a northern Ewe perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 217 pp. (inc. CD), 45.00 [pounds sterling] (US $64.95), ISBN 0 521.48084 1.

Mention African rhythm and most people will automatically think of drumming. It is, of Course, the most obvious thought, what Africans do best in their music, the site where complex rhythmic processes take place. According to Kofi Agawu, however, this aural imagining of Africa, deeply rooted in a discourse of otherness, conflates the conception of African rhythm to a narrow band of difference consonant ...

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