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

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

Published: 1954-12-01

Front Matter

• African Music, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1954)

  [i-v], 4-5

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Forward

• Forward

  Evelyn Baring

  6

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Editorial

• Editorial

  7

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Articles

• The state of folk music in Bantu Africa

  Hugh Tracey

  8-11

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• The music of Tiv

  M.G.M. Lane

  12-15

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• Tribal style and free expression

  David R. Rycroft

  16-27

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

  John F. Carrington

  27-28

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• The talking drums of the Yoruba

  Ulli Beier

  29-31

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• Yoruba folk operas

  Ulli Beier

  32-34

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• The role of the drummer in Akan society

  J.H. Nketia

  34-43

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• Song text of the Bashi

  A.P. Merriam

  44-52

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

  Theodore van Dam

  53-55

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• East and West, North and South

  A.M. Jones

  57-62

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• Music of the Gold Coast

  Philip Gbeho

  62-64

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• Initiation a la musique Congolaise

  J.N. Maquet

  64-68

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• The International Library of African Music

  Hugh Tracey

  71-73

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

  Hugh Tracey

  69-70

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• Bamboo pipes of the Batetela children

  J.M. Shaffer

  74-75

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• Kenya's answer to the Mau Mau challenge

  C.J.M. Alport

  75-76

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• The religious element in Mau Mau

  L.S.B. Leakey

  78-79

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• Report from the Jeanes School, lower Kabete, Kenya

  Graham H. Hyslop

  77

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Letters to the Editor

• Letters to the Editor from O. W. Samson, Ernst Emsheimer, Bertil Soderberg, Paul Collaer, Michael G. M. Lane, Douglas Cleverdon, H. Hickmann, H. Pepper, J. K. Louw, Philip Gbeho, John T. Carrington, A. P. Atkins and H. H. Bloomfield

  Hugh Tracey (Editor)

  80-83

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Notes and News

• Notes and News

  84-90

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Book Reviews

• ARTS AND CRAFTS FOR AFRICANS by J. W. Grossert, MA. (Fine Arts), (Organiser of Arts and Crafts, Department of Native Education, Natal). Shuter and Shooter, Pietermaritzburg, 150 pp.

  H. Bubole

  91

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• WALL PAINTINGS BY SNAKE-CHARMERS IN TANGANYIKA by H. Cory. Faber, 99 pp.

  E.K. Lorimer

  91

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• Some comments on THE ICILA DANCE OLD STYLE by A. M. Jones and L. Kombe, published by Longmans Green for the African Music Society, 1952, 49 pp.

  Raymond Clausen, David K. Rycroft

  92

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Records Reviews

• The fascination of the talking drums

  W.A. Chislett

  93

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List of Books and Pamphlets Received

• List of Books and Pamphlets Received

  Hugh Tracey (Editor)

  95-95

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Back matter

• Contributors to this number

  Hugh Tracey (Editor)

  63

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