Resiliency and Distinction - Beliefs, Endurance and Creativity in the Musical Arts of Continental and Diasporic Africa - A Festschrift in Honor of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje

Professor DjeDje's primary research has been in the United States, West Africa and Jamaica...has studied culture groups that straddle several African countries...as well as African Americans and Afro-Jamaicans...well known for her work on fiddle traditions in Africa...religious music (particularly gospel), and the unique and particular contributions of Africans and African Americans to the soundscape of their worlds...the following essays embrace and expand on her contributions -- from the editors' introduction