List of Figures and Tables, List of Music Examples, Acknowledgements, Conventions and Orthography, Introduction: Our Music Has Become a Divine Spirit Music and Identity in an African Town, 1. Daughters of the Drum - The Social Environment of Female Artists in Dzodze, 2. The Dance Space - Music Associations, Territories and Events, 3. We are a Community Dance-drumming Group - The Dzigbordi Hab¿b¿ of Dzodze, 4. Doing it for Everyone to See - The Oral Artistry of Dzigbordi in Performance, DVD Notes, Glossary, Interviews, References, Index

James Burns provides a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. Dzigbordi is part of a genre known as adekede, or female songs of redress, where women musicians critique gender relations in society. Burns uses audio and video i