Vol. 1 No. 4 (1957): African Music: Journal of the African Music Society

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4

Published: 1957-11-30

Front Matter

• African Music, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1957)

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Editorial

• Editorial

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Articles

• Drums down the centuries

  A.M. Jones

  4-10

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.453

• An African orchestra in Ghana

  F. Onwona Osafo

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.454

• Modern trends in Ghana music

  J.H. Nketia

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.455

• Musical memories of Nigeria

  Brian Kingslake

  17-20

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.456

• The Atilogwu dance

  Mercedes MacKay, Augustine Ene

  20-22

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.457

• Four-toned announcements on Mbole talking gongs

  John F. Carrington

  23-26

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.458

• Some forms of Bushmen art

  James Walton

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.459

• Zulu male traditional singing

  David Rycroft

  33-35

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.460

• The dilema of Bantu church music

  Basil (Brother) Basil

  36-39

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.461

• A Bantu suite for piano, xylophone, whistles and voices

  Heinz Hirschland

  40-44

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.462

• Recording in the lost valley

  Hugh Tracey

  45-47

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.463

Notes and News

• Notes and News

  48-54

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.464

Letters to the Editor

• Letters to the Editor

  54-57

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.465

Book Reviews

• “THE STORY OF SACRED WOOD CARVINGS FROM ONE SMALL YORUBA TOWN”, by H. U. Beier, edited by D. W. Macrow. Printed at Yaba, and published by the Nigeria Magazine, Marina, Lagos

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.466

• FOLK MUSICIANS IN UGANDA, by K. P. Wachsmann, Ph.D. (Uganda Museum Occasional Paper No. 2); the Uganda Museum, Kampala, 1956

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• THE KALELA DANCE; ASPECTS OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP AMONG AFRICANS IN NORTHERN RHODESIA, by J. Clyde Mitchell (The Rhodes-Livingstone Papers No. 27), Manchester University Press (preface (dated June, 1956)

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• UNE TECHNIQUE DE TRANSCRIPTION DE LA MUSIQUE EXOTIQUE (Expériences pratiques) que vient de publier Z. ESTREICHER, du Mustée d’Ethnographie de Neuchatel

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• LES COLLOQUES DE WEGIMONT (Cercle International d’Etudes Ethno-Musicologiques) edited by Paul Collaer (Elsevier, Bruxelles, 1956)

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• NOTE SUR LES INSTRUMENTS DE MUSIQUE CONGOLAISE, by Jean-NoelMaquet,Bruxelles, 1956

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• LES INSTRUMENTS DE MUSIQUE AU BAS-CONGO ET DANS LES REGIONS AVOISINAN- TES: Par Bertil Soderberg. Stockholm: Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, monograph series, publication No. 3, 1956. Pp. 284; 26 plates; 25 text-diagrams; 1 map. 60 kroner

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• BLACK ORPHEUS. No. 1 September 1957, 52 pps. Ministry of Education, Ibadan, Nigeria

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• JAMAICAN REVIVALIST CULTS. Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4. December, 1956

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Additional Articles

• International Library of African Music

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.475

• Songs of the Ketu cult of Bahia (transcriptions)

  Allan P. Merriam

  73-80

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.476

Records Reviews

• An example of hammer and chisel music from Liberia

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.477

Awards

• Osborn and Cowell awards

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Contributors to this number

• Contributors to this number

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List of Books and Pamphlets Received

• List of Books and Pamphlets Received

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i4.480

Back matter

• Contents of Vol. I of African Music

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