Vol. 8 No. 4 (2010): African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v8i4

Published: 2010-11-30

Front Matter

• African Music, Vol. 8, No. 4 (2010)

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Editorial

• From the Editor

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Articles

• Talking balafons

  Hugo Zemp, Sikaman Soro

  6-23

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• Keeping it real: amaXhosa iimbongi making mimesis do its thing in the hip-hop and rap music of the Eastern Cape

  Lee Watkins

  24-47

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• The eroticization of bikutsi: reclaiming female space through popular music and media.

  Dennis M. Rathnaw

  48-68

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• Parading respectability: the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa and the constitution of subjectivity.

  Sylvia Bruinders

  69-83

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• The Lala kalimba: the correlation between instrument and style.

  Marcel Van Dijk

  84-100

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• Crossing diaspora's borders: musical roots experiences and the Euro-American presence in Afro-Cuban religious music.

  Nolan Warden

  101-109

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• Life is short, art and scholarship are long: a tribute in memory of Professor Willie Oscar Anku.

  George Dor

  110-123

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Book Reviews

• Central African Guitar Song Composers, the Second and Third Generation. Field recordings 1962-2009. Gerhard Kubik and associates. Department of Musicology, University of Vienna, Vienna Series in Ethnomusicology 3, 2009. 49 pp. CD 25 tracks, booklet, photographs.

  Andrew Tracey

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• Ancient Text Messages of the Yorùbá Bàtá Drum Cracking the Code. Amanda Villepastour. 2010. Farnham: Ashgate, SOAS Musicology Series. 173 pp. photos, transcriptions, CD. ISBN 978-0-7546-6753-7 hb, ISBN 0754667537 pb.

  Gerhard Kubik

  124-125

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• Memory, Music and Religion: Morocco's Mystical Chanters. Earl H. Waugh. 2005. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press:. xix, 260 pp. illustrations, musical examples, glossary, index. ISBN-10 1570035679. ISBN-13 9781570035678.

  Lee Watkins

  125-130

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• Making the Changes: Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage. Michael Titlestad. 2004. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press. 275 pp. Paperback: ISBN-10: 186888-2918.

  Mark Lomanno

  130-136

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• Sounds of Muziki wa Injili: Temporal and Spatial Aesthetics of Contemporary- Church Music in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Imani Sanga. 2010. Saarbrucken, Germany: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing. 231 pp. photos, transcriptions, ISBN 978-3-8383-6325-7.

  Marie Jorritsma

  137-138

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• East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization. Mwenda Ntarangwi. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2009. 158 pp. ISBN: 978-0-252-076534 pb; 978-0-252-03457-2 hb.

  Imani Sanga

  139-141

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DVD Reviews

• MASTERS OF THE BALAFON, 2001, 2002. by Hugo Zemp. Colour, DVD Series. Produced by Selenium Films, distributed by Educational Resources (www.der.org).

  Mandy Carver

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Additional Articles

• NEWS FROM ILAM

  Diane Thram

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Tracklist

• TRACKLIST Volume 8 number 4, 2010

  Andrew Tracey (Editor)

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Contributors to this number

• Contributors to this issue

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