Vol. 5 No. 4 (1975): African music: Journal of the African Music Society

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i4

Published: 1975-11-30

Front Matter

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  African Music, Vol. 5, No. 4 (1975/6)

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Editorial

• Editorial

  5

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Articles

• Les mendzaÅ‹ des ewondo du Cameroun

  Pie-Claude Ngumu

  6-26

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• Structural levels of rhythm and form in African music: with particular reference to the West Coast

  Laz E.N. Ekwueme

  27-35

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• The talking drums of Nigeria

  Samuel Akpabot

  36-40

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• The Zulu bow songs of Princess Magogo

  David Rycroft

  41-97

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• Musical bows in south-western Angola, 1965

  Gerhard Kubik

  98-104

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• Swahili epic poerty: a musical study

  A.M. Jones

  105-129

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• Music and spirit possession at a Shona Bira

  Paul Berliner

  130-139

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• A new world mbira: the Caribbean marimbula

  Donald Thompson

  140-148

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Notes and News

• Luo music

  149

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Book Reviews

• MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF EAST AFRICA, 1 KENYA by Graham Hyslop, Nelson Africa Ltd, P.O.Box 73146, Nairobi, 1975, pp. viii, 64, photos, transcriptions

  Gerhard Kubik

  150

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• SWEET WORDS. STORYTELLING EVENTS IN BENIN by Dan Ben-Amos. A publication of the Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia, 1975.

  Gerhard Kubik

  150-151

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• THE KACHAMBA BROTHERS' BAND: a study of neo-traditional music in Malawi by Gerhard Kubik. University of Zambia, Institute for African Studies, Zambian Papers No. 9, P.O. Box 900, Lusaka, Zambia, 1974, pp. 75, x, plates, diagrams, bibliography, K2.50, £2.25

  David K. Rycroft

  151-152

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• HUMBI EN HANDA - ANGOLA. Recording and commentary by Gerhard Kubik. One 12” 33â…“ rpm disc, 1973. Belgisches Radio en Televisie 6803 044 (No. 9 of a series issued by the Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, Tervuren). Notes in German and Flemish, with summaries in French and English, 80 pp., music, photos

  Andrew Tracey

  153

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• MUSIK DER GOITER, GEISTER UND MENSCHEN by Wolfgang Laade. Die Musik in der mythischen, fabulierenden und historischen Uberlieferuhg der Volker Afrikas, Nordasiens, Amerikas und Ozeaniens. Eine Quellensammlung. Coll, d'etudes musicologiques, Vol. 58, Valentin Koemer, Baden-Baden 1975, 344 pp., 28 ill.

  Rudolf Brandl

  153-154

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• DANCE AND SOCIETY IN EASTERN AFRICA 1890-1970 - The Beni Ngoma by T.O. Ranger, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1975, pp. xiv and 176, maps, index

  Aylward Shorter

  154-155

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• THE MUSIC OF AFRICA by J.H. Kwabena Nketia, (Gollancz) London, 1975, pp. x+278, £4.00, copyright 1974 by W.W. Norton Inc.

  John Blacking, A.M. Jones, Hewitt Pantaleoni

  155-160

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Films on African Music

• Films on African music

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Back matter

• Backmatter

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