Vol. 7 No. 3 (1996): African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v7i3

Published: 1996-11-30

Front Matter

• African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1996)

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Articles

• Emics and Etics Re-examined, Part 1: Emics and ethics: theoretical considerations

  Gerhard Kubik

  3-10

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• Emics and Etics Re-Examined, Part 2: L'Importance de la Fonction Musicale pour la classification des instruments de musique en langue Mpyεmá´ - une contribution à la discussion sur la dichotomic "emics/etics"

  Maurice Djenda

  11-20

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• Emics and Etics Re-Examined, Part 3: The discourse about others' music: reflecting on African-Brazilian concepts

  Tiago de Oliveira Pinto

  21-29

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• African methods of music education: some reflections

  Dave Dargie

  30-43

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• Fact, ideology and paradox: African elements in early Black South African Jazz and Vaudeville

  Christopher Ballantine

  44-51

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• "Drumbeats, pennywhistles and all that jazz": the relationship between urban South African musical styles and musical meaning

  Lara Allen

  52-59

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• Stringed instrument traditions in southern Malawi

  Moya Aliya Malamusi

  60-66

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• Sesotho music: a contemporary perspective

  Robin Wells

  67-75

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Book Reviews

• THE SOUL OF MBIRA TWENTY YEARS ON:A RETROSPECT, Part 1: THE SOUL OF MBIRA: MUSIC AND TRADITIONS OF THE SHONA PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE, by Paul Berliner, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1994 (first published Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, 1978), 312pp, illustrations, transcriptions, appendices, index.

  Keith Goddard

  76-90

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• THE SOUL OF MBIRA TWENTY YEARS ON:A RETROSPECT, Part 2: THE SOUL OF MBIRA: MUSIC AND TRADITIONS OF THE SHONA PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE, by Paul Berliner, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1994 (first published Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, 1978), 312pp, illustrations, transcriptions, appendices, index.

  John M. Chernoff

  90-95

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• MASKED MEN DANCING AND THE LORDSHIP OVER LAND: a review essay - MAKISINYAU MAPIKO: MASKENTRADITIONEN IN BANTU-SPRACHIGEN AFRIKA, by Gerhard Kubik, Munchen: Trickster Verlag, 1993.

  G.T. Nurse

  96-102

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• MALAWIAN MUSIC: A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS, Gerhard Kubik, assisted by Moya Aliya Malamusi, Lidiya Malamusi and Donald Kachamba, Centre for Social Research and Department for Fine and Performing Arts, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, 1987.

  G.T. Nurse

  103

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• WEST AFRIKA: MUSIKGESCHICHTE IN BILDERN, by Gerhard Kubik, VEB Deutscher Verlag fur Musik, Leipzig, 1989, Band I, Musikethnologie, Lieferung 11, ed. Werner Bachmann, 222pp, illustrations, appendix, bibliography.

  Veit Erlmann

  104-105

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• EXTENSIONEN AFR1KANISCHER KULTUREN IN BRASILIEN, by Gerhard Kubik, Alano, Edition Herodot, Aachen, 1991, German text.

  G.T. Nurse

  105-108

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• MARABI NIGHTS: EARLY SOUTH AFRICAN JAZZ AND VAUDEVILLE, by Cristopher Ballantine, Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1993, 1 l6pp, with cassette.

  Lara Allen

  109-110

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• WEST AFRICAN POP ROOTS, by John Collins, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1992. - AFRICA O-YE!: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN MUSIC, by Graeme Ewens, Da Capo Press, New York, 1991. - BREAKOUT: PROFILES IN AFRICAN RHYTHM, by Gary Stewart, University of Chicago Press, 1992.

  Kazadi wa Mukuna

  111-115

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• AFRICAN MUSIC: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO THE TRADITIONAL, POPULAR, ART, AND LITURGICAL MUSICS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, by John Gray, Greenwood Press, New York, 1991, xii + 499pp, 3 appendixes, 4 indexes.

  Veit Erlmann

  116-117

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• AFRICAN MUSIC: A PAN-AFRICAN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Carol Lems-Dworkin, Hans Zell Publishers, London, 1991, xvii + 382pp, 2 indexes.

  Andrew Tracey

  117

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• MUSIC IN HUMAN LIFE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MUSIC, by John E. Kaemmer, University of Texas Press, 1993, ISBN 0 292 74314 9, 245pp, b/w plates, musical examples, diagrams, glossary, index.

  Jaco Kruger

  117-119

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• A HANDBOOK OF MUSICAL AND OTHER SOUND-PRODUCING INSTRUMENTS FROM EQUATORIAL GUINEA AND GABON, by Ã…ke Norborg, Musikmuseets, Stockholm, No 16, 1989, pp.469.

  Andrea Meyer

  119-121

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• MAKING MUSIC: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN ZIMBABWE PAST AND PRESENT, by Claire Jones, Academic Books, Harare, 1992, 183pp, photos, transcriptions, diagrams.

  Keith Goddard

  121-122

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• SOSIO-ETNIESE DANSE VAN DIE VENDA VROU, by Cora Bumett-van Tonder, HAUM, Pretoria, 1987, 155pp, 62 line drawings, 23 colour plates, music and dance transcriptions, Tshivenda glossary, index, Afrikaans text.

  Jaco Kruger

  122-124

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• LIEDER IN ERZÄHLUNGEN DER BULSA: EINE MUSIKETHNOLOGISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG, by Ulrika Blanc, Forschungen zu Sprachen und Kulturen Afrikas, Band 3, LIT Verlag, Munster und Hamburg, 1993.

  G.T. Nurse

  124-125

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• JUKWAA LA TAARAB - ZANZIBAR, by Issa Mgana, Mediafrica Books, Helsinki 1991, 10lpp, photos, charts, song texts, KiSwahili text.

  Janet Topp-Fargion

  125-129

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• MYTH, RITUAL AND KINGSHIP IN BUGANDA, by Benjamin C. Ray, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1991,239pp., illus., photos.

  Gerhard Kubik

  129-132

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• ZENTRALAFRIKA: MUSIKGESCHICHTE IN BILDERN, by Jos Gansemans and Barbara Schmidt-Wrenger, VEB Deutscher Verlag fur Musik, Leipzig, 1986, Band I, Musikethnologie, Lieferung 9, 210 pages, 238 pictures (partly in colour), map, musical transcriptions and other text illustrations, ISBN 3-370-00150-0.

  Gerhard Kubik

  132-129

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• CAPOEIRA, SAMBA, CANDOMBLÉ: AFRO-BRASILIANISCHE MUSIK IM RECÔNCAVO, BAHIA, by Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin, Neue Folge 52, Abteilung Musikethnologie VII), Berlin, 1991, 264pp., ill., bibl., index.

  Veit Erlmann

  135-136

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• THREE KILOS OF COFFEE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Manu Dibango, in collaboration with Danielle Rouard, translated by Beth G. Raps, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1994, 146pp, index, discography, photographs.

  John M. Chernoff

  137-142

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• AFRICAN STARS: STUDIES IN BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN PERFORMANCE, by Veit Erlmann, Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology, edited by Philip V. Bohlman and Bruno Nettl.) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991, xxi plus 214 pp., music examples, photos, bibliography, index.

  David Rycroft

  137-145

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• SHABA DIARY: A TRIP TO REDISCOVER THE 'KATANGA' GUITAR STYLES AND SONGS OF THE 1950s AND '60s, by John Low, Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica Nr.54, Ed. Engelbert Stiglmayr, Series Musicologica 4 Series Africana 16, Wien-Fohrenau, 1982. Co-eds: Franz Fodermayr, Anna Hohenwart-Gerlachstein, Gerhard Kubik, 125 pp., photo, music examples, bibliography, discography.

  David Rycroft

  145-147

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• DANIEL KACHAMBA MEMORIAL CASSETTE, ed. Mitchell Strumpf, with commentary booklet, 26pp, by Gerhard Kubik, University of Malawi, Zomba, 1992.

  G.T. Nurse

  147-148

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• "ROOTS OF RHYTHM: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF EAST AFRICA", video with booklet, Jacaranda Designs Ltd, Nairobi, 1995.

  Andrew Tracey

  148

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• ORIGINS OF THE POPULAR STYLE: THE ANTECEDENTS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY POPULAR MUSIC, by Peter van der Merwe, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989, pp.352.

  Christine Lucia

  148-151

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Notes and News

• Lesotho Academy of Arts

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