Vol. 1 No. 1 (1954): African Music: Journal of the African Music Society

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Published: 1954-12-01

Front Matter

  • African Music, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1954)

    [i-v], 4-5
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.216

Forward

  • Forward

    Evelyn Baring
    6
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.217

Editorial

  • Editorial

    7
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.218

Articles

  • The state of folk music in Bantu Africa

    Hugh Tracey
    8-11
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.219

  • The music of Tiv

    M.G.M. Lane
    12-15
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.220

  • Tribal style and free expression

    David R. Rycroft
    16-27
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.221

  • Notes on an idiophone used in Kabile initiation rites by the Mbae

    John F. Carrington
    27-28
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.222

  • The talking drums of the Yoruba

    Ulli Beier
    29-31
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.223

  • Yoruba folk operas

    Ulli Beier
    32-34
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.224

  • The role of the drummer in Akan society

    J.H. Nketia
    34-43
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.225

  • Song text of the Bashi

    A.P. Merriam
    44-52
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.226

  • The influence of the west African songs of Derision in the new world

    Theodore van Dam
    53-55
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.227

  • East and West, North and South

    A.M. Jones
    57-62
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.228

  • Music of the Gold Coast

    Philip Gbeho
    62-64
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.229

  • Initiation a la musique Congolaise

    J.N. Maquet
    64-68
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.230

  • The International Library of African Music

    Hugh Tracey
    71-73
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.232

  • Osborn Awards for the best recordings of African music for the year 1953

    Hugh Tracey
    69-70
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.231

  • Bamboo pipes of the Batetela children

    J.M. Shaffer
    74-75
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.233

  • Kenya's answer to the Mau Mau challenge

    C.J.M. Alport
    75-76
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.234

  • The religious element in Mau Mau

    L.S.B. Leakey
    78-79
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.235

  • Report from the Jeanes School, lower Kabete, Kenya

    Graham H. Hyslop
    77
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.236

Letters to the Editor

Notes and News

  • Notes and News

    84-90
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.238

Book Reviews

Records Reviews

  • The fascination of the talking drums

    W.A. Chislett
    93
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.242

List of Books and Pamphlets Received

  • List of Books and Pamphlets Received

    Hugh Tracey (Editor)
    95-95
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.243

Back matter

  • Contributors to this number

    Hugh Tracey (Editor)
    63
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.244