Traditional Music as a Sustainable Social Technology for Community Health Promotion in Africa: "Singing and Dancing for Health" in Rural Northern Ghana

Music is a social technology of enormous potential for improving community health. This paper reports on a series of applied ethnomusicological interventions, enacted as a participatory action research project in northern Ghana, for health promotion. Initial interventions, performed by local profess...

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Main Authors: Michael Frishkopf, David Zakus, Mubarak Alhassan, Ibrahim Abukari Zukpeni, Sulemana Abu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ghana 2016-12-01
Series:Legon Journal of the Humanities
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