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JOHN COLLINS African Musical Symbol
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© 2005 John Collins This work was
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4 Staggered Rhythms ...............
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6 SECTION TWO: THE SPACE AND INFORM
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8 THEMATIC CHAPTER EIGHT: FREEWILL
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10 Figure 20: A circular TUBS diagr
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FORWARD This book endeavours to mak
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Legon and was appointed head of the
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18 prestigious concert-halls and co
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20 Africa. Another music reviewer c
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22 In a parallel way classical scie
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SECTION ONE: ANCIENT AFRICAN WISDOM
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Besides the polarity of on/offbeat
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American musicologist John Chernoff
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According to the ethnomusicologists
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Figure 5: TUBS diagram of the adowa
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Tune, which A.M. Jones discovered,
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Figure 10: Comparison of the Africa
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were in use. These were based on a
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that leave little living space insi
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pattern by using the famous gestalt
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would probably first put their atte
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Figure 15: Expanded portion of the
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language they turned the meaning in
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Note in the above that as in the ag
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Theme Four: Holism - The Collective
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produce a third resultant wave-like
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Theme Five: Circularity - Rhythmic
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Figure 21: A circular TUBS diagram
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Many rhythmic dialogues and overlap
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long familiar to them and so they c
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or only a few notes fall: number tw
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Figure 25: Some acoustic mandalas o
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like knowing where you live, so tha
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dividable prime number seven which
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To learn the required multiple rhyt
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some light percussion instruments.
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eactions to the Serial or Twelve To
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ased on an apprentice system. The c
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way to more roughly produced “pun
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ecognised composers, virtuoso stars
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CHAPTER TWO: THE TRADITIONAL AFRICA
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economic arrangement, with the men
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goddess of love was called Ishtar o
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and the slash-and-burn cultivation
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Figure 28: African states, ethnic g
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fertilises the earth-goddess. Lower
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men or women. 81 First on this topi
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and the rivers. The Akan, Mende and
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101 sub-Saharan African kings and c
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103 Africa, as they had done in the
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Theme Two: Relativity - Polytheism,
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107 The third cornerstone of this t
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109 thought to consist of the Sunsu
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111 Galungan festival is held: equi
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Theme Three: Hidden Space - Cosmic
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115 offbeat behaviour were encourag
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117 This difference does not end he
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119 Placentas or Nommos. The vibrat
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121 examples of these breaks in soc
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123 Besides supplying spacing and b
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125 animate matter. According to Ja
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127 This notion of time being somet
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Theme Five: Circularity - The Etern
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Figure 35: Age-sets as Mandala (Mod
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133 From the above Figure one can s
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135 maze in the Minoan capitol of K
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137 One hundred fifty years after P
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139 The snake even gave its name to
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141 the central pole with the ances
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Theme Six: A Driving Touch of Asymm
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Theme Seven: Mature Poise - Elders
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147 regal level are the Akan Kings
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149 Apollo became associated with t
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151 It is at that moment that the m
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Theme Eight: Freewill and Determini
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155 The African Socio-Political Rea
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157 one-stringed fiddle players of
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159 drumming, women priests, divina
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161 into stages heralded by rituals
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163 engaged in lavish displays of w
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165 orange, depleted uranium, etc.)
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167 forces rather than to social ne
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169 searching for a “cool” unde
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171 helped spark-off voyages of dis
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173 knowledge of the present state
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REACTIONS AGAINST THE MECHANISTIC V
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177 The disintegration of bedrock c
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179 brain. Psychologists rather dis
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181 have helped foster an artistic
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183 into lemmings, bent on self des
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Brain Lateralisation and Twin Psych
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187 dichotomy is between the consci
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189 many ways this is equivalent to
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191 Both these above examples of li
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193 The first illustration is of an
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195 positive/negative atomic interf
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THEMATIC CHAPTER TWO: RELATIVISM 19
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199 previously mentioned fact that
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201 In both the above Figures the t
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203 Newtonian/Cartesian idea of a s
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205 Empiricist associationism was t
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207 According to Jung, an individua
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Helmholtz’s Sound Spectrum 209 Th
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211 Harry Partch thought forty-thre
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213 ordinates either. Rather space-
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THEMATIC CHAPTER THREE: HIDDEN SPAC
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217 subconscious Id which, as noted
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219 Some welcomed this new found li
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221 that he called C, or the Cardin
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223 theory came up against the prob
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225 N.B. If one moves in the revers
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227 capable of producing two arithm
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229 upon the old notion of African
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231 of energy. They called these pa
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Figure 49: A Feynman Vacuum Diagram
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235 surface of this bubble is calle
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237 be sucked into the Black Hole,
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239 the universe. The second is the
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241 particular one that emerges is
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243 structure” return things temp
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THEMATIC CHAPTER FOUR: HOLISM 245 I
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247 German writer Kohler observed t
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249 string a melodic sequence toget
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251 sequential logic. The IQ test i
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253 the Greek one of Dionysus and D
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255 These baser aspects of Christen
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257 toilet-training; which then iro
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259 As will be discussed again late
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261 as diffuse interference pattern
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263 Whether in the sonic or mental
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THEMATIC CHAPTER FIVE: CIRCULARITY
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267 maxima it will eventually contr
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269 astrological zodiacs and the ph
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271 Some African examples of fourne
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Figure 55: The old Greek centred cr
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Figure 56: An auto-catalytic chemic
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277 Prigogine calls it: a topic tha
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279 revolving zodiacs, from the phi
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THEMATIC CHAPTER SIX: A DRIVING TOU
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283 baroque times, when the interva
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285 We now move from musical asymme
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287 However, this state of final de
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289 In which ever way human beings
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291 On the aesthetic level we will
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293 so pave a quick route to the ro
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295 of a wise therapist) may help t
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297 the random throw of yarrow stic
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299 Europe rediscovered ancient Gre
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301 modern version of Romanticism h
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303 posits that what we treat as a
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305 Conclusion Mature African maste
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307 unity, the overt and internal,
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309 meta or multi-discipline that e
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311 African destiny, as revealed by
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313 time with a five hundred televi
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Constructionist, Deconstructionism
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317 African ritual order is punctua
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Quantum Consciousness 319 The indet
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321 rejected gross materialism. In
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THEMATIC CHAPTER NINE: THE PARTICIP
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325 The idea of a subjective side o
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327 an individual one. 380 Accordin
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329 into a single planetary conscio
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331 metastable hydrogen and handedn
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333 As noted in this chapter the pa
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CODA 335 Twentieth century scientis
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Figure 58: Industrial disharmony (l
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339 mechanistic, humanistic and eco
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341 Fourthly: polyrhythmic African
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343 the centuries much of it has be
Page 346 and 347: 345 Collins E. John. 1985. Music Ma
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Page 350 and 351: 349 Bastide Roger. 1971. African Ci
Page 352 and 353: 351 Fortes Meyer. 1945. The Dynamic
Page 354 and 355: 353 Ogot B. & Kieran J. (eds). 1968
Page 356 and 357: 355 Willetts Ronald F. 1962. Cretan
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Page 360 and 361: 359 Russell Bertrand. Introduction
Page 362 and 363: 361 Gardner Martin. 1967. The Ambid
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Page 368 and 369: Lorentz, Hendrik A. . 198, 199, 202
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Page 374 and 375: Black Diaspora . 17, 23, 42, 52, 34
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Page 378 and 379: elder . 118, 130, 145, 147, 151, 15
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Page 382 and 383: jazz . 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 28, 42,
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Page 386 and 387: participatory mode.. 160, 162, 279,
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Page 394 and 395: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 393 Brian Hercules
Page 398 and 399: 397 Bartholomy; Butch Lacey; Patsy
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