African Music Proposal

For my final project, I would like to focus on music from Ghana, starting with the traditional African music, instruments, and rhythms and how they have been influenced by westen culture and have changed over time.  Using articels accessed through the internet and books, I intend to focus on early African music and how it has changed, but with more focus on the early period and period of colonilization and missionaries, rather than comtemporary.  I will study about certain tribes in the region like the Dagomba and types of music like gyil music involving a xylophone type instrument.  Northern Ghana also has a history of griot singing, which is a type of storytelling singing, which is now becoming a exinct tradition.