Negro influences on Indonesia

Authors

  • M.D.W. Jeffreys University of Witwatersrand

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.702

Keywords:

Indonesia -- Civilization -- African ifluences, Slave trade -- Indian Ocean Region, Culture diffusion -- Indian Ocean Region

Abstract

The Rev. A. M. Jones in a recent article* on the relationship between Indonesian and African music has called attention to a very interesting cultural feature, but his deductions that Negro African music is indebted to Indonesia is open to grave doubt. The similarities in music between Indonesia and Africa are due to the impress that African Negroes, imported into Melanesia by the Arab slave trade, exerted on the culture traits of Indonesia.

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Published

1961-05-11

How to Cite

Jeffreys, M.D.W. 1961. “Negro Influences on Indonesia”. African Music : Journal of the International Library of African Music 2 (4):10-16. https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.702.