Vol. 9 No. 2 (2012): African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v9i2

Published: 2012-11-30

Front Matter

• African Music, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2012)

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Editorial

• Editorial

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Articles

• A woman can sing and dance but cannot dance with high leaps: musical performance of the Haya of Bukoba, Tanzania

  Mathayo Ndomondo

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• A modern tradition: the social history of the Zimbabwean Marimba

  Claire Jones

  32-56

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• Playing techniques of the nnanga of Buganda

  Rachel Muehrer

  57-76

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• Travel on a song-the roots of Zanzibar taarab

  Hilda Kiel

  77-93

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• Kusamira: singing rituals of wellness in southern Uganda

  Peter Hoesing

  94-127

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• The trans-atlantic journey of Gumbé: where and why has it survived?

  Rachel Jackson

  128-153

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• Performing advocacy: women's music and dance in Dagbon, northern Ghana

  Katharine Stuffelbeam

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Book Reviews

• Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz. Carol Ann Muller and Sathima Bea Benjamin. 2011. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 348 pp.

  Ingrid Monson

  170-172

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• Cultural Globalization and Music. African Artists in Transnational Networks. Nadia Kiwan and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof. 2011. Palgrave Macmillan. 272 pp.

  Veit Erlmann

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• Live From Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania's Music Economy. Alex Perullo. 2011. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 459 pp.

  David B. Coplan

  174-175

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• Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana. Steven Feld. 2012. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 328 pp.

  Paul Schauert

  176-178

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• AIDS, Politics and Music in South Africa. Fraser G. McNeill. 2011. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 278 pp.

  Mandy Carver

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• Music Notation: A South African Guide. Christine Lucia. 2011. Pretoria: UNISA Press. 318 pp.

  Thomas M. Pooley

  181-186

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• Umm Kulthum: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967-2007. Laura Lohman. 2010. Middle Town, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 229 pp.

  Luis Gimenez

  186-188

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• Sounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History. 2011. Victor Grauer. Selfpublished via CreateSpace. Illustrations at http://soundingthedepths.blogspot.com/. 294pp.

  Andrew Tracey

  188-189

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• Ethnomusicology in East Africa. Perspectives from Uganda and Beyond. Selected papers from the 1st International Symposium on Ethnomusicology, Makerere University, Kampala, 2009. S. Nannyonga-Tamusuza and T. Solomon (eds.). 2012. Kampala: Fountain Publishers. 255pp.

  Andrew Tracey

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• Readings in Ethnomusicology. Two collections of papers presented at Ethnomusicology Symposia 2010 and 2011. Mitchel Strumpf and Imani Sanga (eds.). University of Dar es Salaam, Dept. of Fine and Performing Arts. 153pp.; 193pp.

  Andrew Tracey

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Contributors to this number

• Contributors to this issue

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Subscription Information

• annual subscription rates

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Resources for Music Education

• Publications of ILAM

  Diane Thram

  193-198

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Tracklist

• tracklist

  Diane Thram

  200

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Back matter

• Backmatter

  Diane Thram

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