Vol. 5 No. 3 (1973): African music: Journal of the African Music Society

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i3

Published: 1973-11-30

Front Matter

• African Music, Vol. 5, No. 3 (1973/4)

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Editorial

• Editorial

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Articles

• A model for the study of African music

  Mosunmola Omibiyi

  6-11

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• African music in Christian liturgy: the igbo experiment

  Lazarus Nnanyelu Ekwueme

  12-33

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• Some sources of music in Western Sudan from 1300-1700

  Veit Erlmann

  34-39

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• The bull-roarer in history and in antiquity

  J.R. Harding

  40-42

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• Luo music and its rhythm

  A.M. Jones

  43-54

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• Some preliminary notes on the music of the Cwezi cult in Ankole (Western Uganda)

  Paul van Thiel

  55-64

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• Recherche ethnomusicologique au Rwanda

  Jos Gansemans

  65-69

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• Some patterns of rhythm and harmony in kalumbu music

  Marjory Davidson

  70-76

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• The kondi of Sierra Leone

  Cootje van Oven

  77-85

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• Mohambi xylophone music of the Shangana-Tsonga

  Thomas F. Johnston

  86-93

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Letters to the Editor

• Letters to the Editor

  Andrew Tracey

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Book Reviews

• MUSIQUE DAN: La musique dans la pensee et la vie sociale d'une socidte africaine, by Hugo Zemp, Cahiers de l'Homme, Nouvelle Serie XI, Paris, Mouton, 1971. pp. 320, illus., maps, tables, song texts, glossary, bibliography and discography

  John Blacking

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• 'Principles governing the construction of the Silimba, a xylophone type found among the Lozi of Zambia', by Atta Annan Mensah.'Ghanaian xylophone studies', by Mitchel Strumpf.'Oral notation of some West and Central African time-line patterns', by Gerhard Kubik. 'Fieldwork in African music', by John Blacking

  Andrew Tracey

  99

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• FOLK AND TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF THE WESTERN CONTINENTS by Bruno Nettl. Prentice-Hall, History of Music Series, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, revised edition 1973 (original edition 1965)

  Hugh Tracey

  100

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• PAREDON P 1002 -ANGOLA: A VITORIA E CERTAI VICTORY IS CERTAIN! Songs of the Liberation Army of M.P.L.A. 12-inch mono L.P., with 16 page booklet edited by Pat Payandeh. Produced by Barbara Dane. "Recorded in the liberated zones by members of the Liberation Support Movement.” Paredon Records, P.O. Box 889, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11202, U.S.A. $4-50 in U.S. $5-00 elsewhere by I.M.O.

  Tom Bingham

  100

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• HOW MUSICAL IS MAN ? by John Blacking. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1973. $6-95.

  Christopher Ballantine

  101-102

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• DANCES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. Produced and filmed by Gei Zantzinger, edited Conley Benfield, sound Ruth Zantzinger. 16 mm. colour, 53 minutes, commentary Dr. Hugh Tracey, interview with Andrew Tracey. Distributed through Pennsylvania State Psychological Cinema Register, Audio-Visual Department

  Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck

  102

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• BAFIA KAMEROEN and YAKA-MUZIEK Nos. 7 and 8 in a series of African music recordings issued by the Musee Royale de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium and the Belgische Radio en Televisie, 1972. 12" L.P. with booklet in four languages, pp. 49 and 60

  Alan P. Merriam

  103-104

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• CONTRIBUTION A L'ETUDE DE LA MUSIQUE SACREE ZARMA SONGHAY by Bernard Surugue, Etudes Nigeriennes No. 30, Centre Nigerien de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Niamey, Niger Republic, 1972, pp. 63, viii, plates, diagrams, maps

  Andrew Tracey

  104

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• THE MUSIC OF CENTRAL AFRICA by Rose Brandel. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, reprinted 1973, original edition 1961

  Andrew Tracey

  104

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Notes and News

• Notes and News

  105-107

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Resources for Music Education

• The "sound of Africa" series

  Hugh Tracey

  108-109

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Back matter

• Backmatter

  Andrew Tracey

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