Open AccessAfrican Music Creativity and Performance: The Science of the Sound
Author(s) -
Meki Nzewi
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v6i1.242
Subject(s) - extant taxon , sound (geography) , creativity , indigenous , happening , sign (mathematics) , software deployment , sociology , aesthetics , history , psychology , art , social psychology , performance art , acoustics , engineering , art history , ecology , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , evolutionary biology , biology , software engineering
What we believe we see or hear is often far from the truth of what we are seeing or hearing. What we know we feel is often merely a sign of what we do not know is happening to us. Without cognitive understanding, what we do with extant indigenous knowledge manifestations will be abstracted misrepresentations and misimpressions that problematize contemporary advancement and re-deployment in initiatives.