Vol. 1 No. 3 (1956): African Music: Journal of the African Music Society

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i3

Published: 1956-11-30

Front Matter

• African Music, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1956)

  [i-v], 4

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Editorial

• Editorial

  5

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Articles

• The discovery of multiple rock gongs in Nigeria

  Bernard Fagg

  6-9

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• Individual names given to talking-gongs in the Yalemba area of Belgian Congo

  John F. Carrington

  10-17

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• The origin of present day musical taste in Nigeria

  Michael G.M. Lane

  18-22

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• Yoruba vocal music

  H.U. Beier

  23-28

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• A hobbyist looks at Zulu and Xhosa songs

  J.F.A. Swartz

  29-33

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• Music in African churches

  Canon E.E. Lury

  34-35

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• Notes on Canon Lury's article

  Hugh Tracey

  36

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• Music in West African churches

  E.G. Parrinder

  37-38

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• Experiments in indigenous church music among the Batetela

  Jacquiline Shaffer

  39-42

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• The use of African music in the church

  Johan K. Louw

  43-44

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• Yoruba religious music

  K. Carrol

  45-47

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• The Tuareg of the Ahaggar

  Geoffrey Holiday

  48-52

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• Songs of the Ketu cult of Bahia, Brazil

  Alan P. Merriam

  53-67

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• "Negro rhythm in the Americas"- being extracts from an article originally written in Spanish

  Néstor R. Ortiz Oderigo

  68-69

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• Society of Ethnomusicology

  Willard Rhodes

  70-71

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• International Library of African Musicy

  72

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Notes and News

• Notes and News

  75-78

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Letters to the Editor

• Letters to the Editor

  79

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Book Reviews

• AFRICAN MUSIC FROM THE SOURCE OF THE NILE by Joseph Kyagambiddwa, Frederick A. Pareger, New York, 1955 XII, 255.

  80

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• FUNERAL DIRGES OF THE AKAN PEOPLE, by J. H. Nketia. Published by Achimota, Gold Coast, 1955. Blocks and Samples of musical transcriptions 296 pp.

  82

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• DIEUX D’AFRIQUE by Pierre Verger. (Paul Hartmann, Editeur, Paris, 1954) 192 pp., 160 plates.

  83

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• LES HOMMES DE LA DANSE, by Michel Huet and Keita Fodeba. (Editions Clairefontaine, Lausanne 1954), 135 pp., 162 plates.

  83

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• DOCTORS, DRUMS AND DANCERS, by Andras D. Laszlo, m.d. (Robert Hale Ltd., London, 1956), 286 pp., illustrated.

  83

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Records Reviews

• Extract from “Nights at the Round Table” by W. A. Chislett (The Gramophone).

  84

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• “MUSIC OF AFRICA” SERIES OF LONG PLAYING RECORDS.

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Contributors to this number

• Contributors to this number

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Back matter

• Contributors to this number

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List of Books and Pamphlets Received

• List of Books and Pamphlets Received

  88

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