Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool, by Kwasi Ampene

Abstract

Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool demonstrates how ethnographic fieldwork enables a richly nuanced understanding of the musical, verbal, and visual arts of the Asante people. This book is distinct from other publications such as Drumming in Akan Communities of Ghana (Nketia 1963)