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- Title
- Sand and Ceremony
- Author
- Leake, Jerry
- Publisher
- Jerry Leake
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235360891
In November 1996, Dale Jackson boarded a flight to Accra with two months of savings and a dream about a dead man.
Kwakou Afolabi had taught him Ewe drumming in Boston for five years. When Kwakou died, Dale promised himself he would go and see the country-and then a year later Kwakou came to him in a dream and said he was sad Dale had never come.
What Dale finds in the village of Denu is a school run by Kwakou's three sons, a compound full of teachers who are also salesmen, and a tradition that will not be learned in eight weeks by anybody, least of all a thirty-year-old American who already believes he knows something.
He is taken to a sacred lake at midnight and told never to look back. He kneels for an hour on a concrete floor while cowrie shells are thrown, and hands over money for protection he never asked for and cannot get an account of.
Then he flies home to Boston in January and learns that his father died while he was away, and that his mother did not tell him, because she wanted him to finish.
Rocks come over a wall for eleven days, and there is an explanation for them. A woman with white eyes sits beside a road, and there is not. A crow appears in three countries. A ghost sings a drum phrase across a fire that the man who heard it had only known for four days.
This is a book about music written by a musician-technical about hands and time, unsentimental about what a country does to a body that does not belong in it, and honest about a man who chose, every time, and knew it.
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About the Author
Jerry Leake is the author of ten books of fiction and nine books on rhythm and percussion. His fiction ranges across thrillers, dark fantasy, and literary suspense - the Jack's Alive trilogy, the Twin Crossing duology, Lethal Injection, The Soul Searcher, Sand and Ceremony - and often draws on the places and people he knows firsthand. He has also written cartoon and comic collections - Far Fetched, Dogbreath - and books for younger readers. He is a Professor of World Percussion at Berklee College of Music and a faculty member at the New England Conservatory, where he has taught for more than thirty years. His percussion texts on North Indian, South Indian, West African, and Afro-Cuban rhythm are used by students and players worldwide. He has studied and performed in Ghana and India, and is a founding member of Natraj and Club d'Elf, leads the world-rock fusion octet Cubist, and has long played with the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society.
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