ÁFRICA

Subtitle: Música y Arte – Colección Helena Folch
Author: E. MARTINEZJacquet / SERRA ESTER D.
Material Type: general or thematic Work
Publisher: Fundación La Fontana, Barcelona, 2008. Hardcover cardboard editor with title in black engraved recessed under jacket illustrated color new, in-4, size: 24.5 x 29.5 cm, ISBN 13.978-84-612-3895 -8
Content: 224 p, 3 maps, Library, lavishly illustrated with photographs in situ in b / w and color with including numerous color illustrations of musical instruments including 92 described
Additional information: limited release. With the collaboration of Marc Leo Felix, Madeleine Leclair, Louis Perrois and Bettina von Linting. Bilingual text in Catalan and English. Book sold.
State of the work: Very good condition like new

SKU: Réf. 10/869-[464] Categories: , Tags: ,

Description

This book in Castilian [translation into Catalan and English] is the photographic illustration of the African part of the musical instruments funds collected for almost forty years by a passionate couple cultura primitiveHelena FolchRusiñol and her husband Alejandro Maluquer. These instruments nearly 1,800 today – make up the permanent collection of the Fondation La Fontana created in 1992.

This is a beautiful book, both for its editorial and iconographic quality for his ethnomusicological interest. Even if it is to fall into the category of “art books”, is not only a “beautiful book” because the bottom is not sacrificed to form. Written by anthropologists and ethnomusicologists with extensive knowledge of Africa, the texts are there to testify. Manifestly and claimed, that is the aesthetic dimension of African musical instruments that is put forward, and the authors do not hide. However, the ethnomusicological dimension (“Music in context“) is not sacrificed.

The theme of the book is clearly organological. After two introductory texts Madeleine Leclair and Elena Martínez-Jacquet, the body of the book consists of four chapters, corresponding to the four main categories of instruments classificatory universally adopted today: aerophones, stringed instruments, and membranophones idiophones.

The book concludes with an interesting “Journey to Africa through his music” written by David Serra Ester (p. 164) followed by “ethnic card” (p. 172), though brief, is not less useful, as well as a bibliography on African music (p. 218).

Additional information

Weight 2010 g
Dimensions 24.5 × 29.5 cm