Vol. 7 No. 1 (1991): African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v7i1

Published: 2017-07-12

Front Matter

• African Music, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1991)

  [i-ii]1-2

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Editorial

• A word from the Editor

  3-4

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Articles

• Black South African urban music since the 1890's: some reminiscences of Alfred Assegai Kumalo (1879-1966)

  David Rycroft

  5-32

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• Umngqokolo: Xhosa overtone singing and the song nondel'ekhaya

  David Dargie

  33-47

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• Sengenya dance music: its intrumental resources and performance

  Asante Darkwa

  48-54

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• Samba Ng'oma eight - The drum chime of Mário Sabuneti

  Moya Aliya Malamusi

  55-71

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• Brass bands and the beni phenomenon in urban east Africa

  Stephen H. Martin

  72-81

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• Kambazithe Makolekole and his valimba group: a glimpse of the technique of the Sena xylophone

  Andrew Tracey

  82-104

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• Notes on new and old world African drumming: just playing it like you mean it is not playing

  David Coplan

  105-109

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Book Reviews

• Early Field Recordings: A Catalogue of Cylinder Collections at the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music, edited by Anthony Seeger and Louise S. Spear. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1987. xviii plus 198 pp. (Reprinted from Journal of Contemporary African Studies Vol.7 No. 1/21988 by permission)

  Andrew Tracey

  110-111

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• The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan Press: New York: Grove's Dictionary of Music, 1984. [Vol.I, xxvi, 805p; Vol.II, xiii, 982p; Vol.HI, xiii, 921p]

  Darius L. Thieme

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Contributors to this number

• Contributors to this issue

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Back matter

• Back Matter

  Andrew Tracey (Editor)

  119-121

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