ERIC CHARRY
Music Dept., Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
06459
860.685.2579, echarry@wesleyan.edu, http://echarry.web.wesleyan.edu/
PUBLICATIONS
Book
2000 Mande
Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western
Africa, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. xxxi + 500 pages.
Finalist
for African Studies Association's Melville Herskovits award for best book in
English in African Studies in 2000. Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement (June 29, 2001).
Articles, chapters, encyclopedia and dictionary
entries
forth. Ethnomusicology and the Study of Africa,
Fodeba Keita, Salif Keita, and Youssou NDour, in Joseph Miller and John
Middleton (eds.), New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2nd ed., Charles
Scribners Sons Reference Books.
forth. Articles on Mande Music for DVD-ROM and VCD:
One World, Many Musics, Joep Bor (ed.), Codarts Research, Hogeschool voor Muziek en Dans,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In production.
2005 Introduction,
in Babatunde Olatunji, with Robert Atkinson, assisted by Akinsola Akiwowo, The
Beat of My Drum: An Autobiography, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1-26.
2003 Africa,
in The Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed., Don Randel (ed.), Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 17-26.
2002 "The
Mande Praise Song Kayra (Peace): Mande Global Perspectives," co-authored with Jan Jansen
(The Netherlands) and Seydou Camara (Mali), Metamorphoses 10(1): 300-21.
2001 Griot
(10: 427), Guinea (10: 540-46), Jembe (12: 942-43), Mali (15: 688-96),
Senegal (23: 74-78),
in The New Grove Dictionary of
Music and Musicians, 2nd
ed., Stanley Sadie (ed.), London: Macmillan.
2000 Music
and Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, in The History of Islam in Africa, Nehemia Levtzion and Randall
Pouwels (eds.), Athens: Ohio University Press, 545-73.
------ Mamaya: Renewal and Tradition in the
Manninka Music of Kankan, Guinea (1935-45), co-authored with Lansin Kaba, in The
African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective, Ingrid Monson (ed.), New York: Garland, 187-206.
1997-8 Freedom and Form in Ornette Colemans Early Atlantic
Recordings, Annual Review of Jazz Studies 9: 261-94.
1996 Plucked
Lutes in West Africa: an Historical Overview, Galpin Society Journal 49: 3-37.
------ A Guide to the Jembe, Percussive
Notes (April) 34(2): 66-72.
1994 The
Grand Mande Guitar Tradition of the Western Sahel and Savannah, The
World of Music
36(2): 21-61.
------ West African Harps, Journal of
the American Musical Instrument Society 20: 5-53.
Reviews
forth. Review of Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom
Aint, Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2003.
Annual
Review of Jazz Studies. In press.
2005 Review
of two CD-ROMs: The Jazz Discography, Version 4.4, Tom Lord, 2004; and
85
Years of Recorded Jazz (1917-2002, A-Z Complete), W. Bruyninckx and D. Truffandier,
2004. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 61(3): 833-837.
2004 Review
of CD, Niger. Peuls Wodaabe: Chants du worso/Wodaabe Fulani: Worso songs, 1998, INEDIT W260081. Ethnomusicology 48(1): 153-55.
2003 Review
of Meki Nzewi, African Music: Theoretical Content and Creative Continuum,
The Culture-Exponents Definitions, Oldershausen: Institut fr Didaktik populrer Musik, 1997.
African
Studies Review
46(3): 157-58.
------ Review of Simon Ottenberg, Seeing
with Music: The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians, Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 1996. African Studies Review 46(3): 166-68.
------ Review of CD, Siramori Diabat:
Griot Music from Mali #3, 2002, PAN Records 2104.
Yearbook
for Traditional Music 35: 217.
------ Review of CD-ROM, Music and Culture
of West Africa: The Straus Expedition. Indiana University Press, 2002. Notes: Quarterly
Journal of the Music Library Association 60(2): 508-510.
2000 Review
of Michelle Kisliuk, Sieze the Dance! BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography
of Performance,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. The World of Music 42(2): 145-49.
------ Review of two CDs: Mali: Bambara
Music of Baninko,
1998, VDE-Gallo, VDE CD 980;
Mali:
The Dogon. Music of the Masks and the Funeral Rituals, 1999, INEDIT W 260089;
Yearbook
for Traditional Music 32: 228-29.
1999 Free
Jazz" (15-17), "Africa" (361-62),
in
Readers Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism, Murray Steib (ed.), Chicago:
Fitzroy Dearborn. (Essays reviewing
major books in the field.)
1998 Review
of two CDs: Aicha Mint Chighaly: Griote de Maurtianie, INEDIT W260078; and
Senegal:
Le Saoruba de Casamance, VDE-Gallo, VDE CD 926;
Yearbook
for Traditional Music 30: 182-84.
------ Review of John Cowley, Carnival,
Canboulay, and Calypso: Traditions in the Making, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1996. Yearbook for Traditional Music 30: 145-47.
1996 Review
of four films: Jali Nyama Suso, Music of the Mande Parts I & II, Salif
Keita: Destiny of a Noble Outcast, and Djembefola. Ethnomusicology 40(1): 174-78. Editors correction in Ethnomusicology (1997) 41(2): 325-26.
1994 Review
of African Classical Music and the Griot Tradition, by Tunde Jegede, and Tunde
Jegede: Cycle of Reckoning, cassette recording. British Journal of Ethnomusicology 3: 113-114.
CD and Video Notes
1999 Liner
Notes for CD: Grand Papa Diabate: Guitar Extra Dry, Popular African Music, PAM AG 703.
1998 Liner
Notes for CD: Djessou Mory Kante: guitare sche, Popular African Music, PAM AG 701.
1996 Notes
for five drumming selections from the Senegambia region, JVC/Smithsonian
Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of Africa, vol. 1: 42-45, vol. 2: 6-8.
Other
1993 Assistant
Editor, African Musical Instruments and African American Popular Musical
Forms, by Conchita Ndege and Robert
Nicholls; a catalog accompanying the African musical instrument exhibition of
the Mattye Reed African Heritage Center, Greensboro, NC.
Works-in-Progress
Book
Manuscript: The Emergence of an Avant Garde in Jazz, 1956-1965
Book Manuscript: Music as a
Cultural Force: Downtown New York in the 1950s and 60s
Edited Collection: African Music
in the 21st Century