Vol. 2 No. 4 (1961): African Music: Journal of the African Music Society

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4

Published: 1961-05-11

Front Matter

• African Music, Vol. 2, No. 4 (1961)

  [i-ii], [1-4]

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Editorial

• Editorial

  [5]

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Articles

• Physical phenomena which appear to have determined the bases and development of an harmonic sense among Bushmen, Hottentot and Bantu

  Percival R. Kirby

  6-9

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• Negro influences on Indonesia

  M.D.W. Jeffreys

  10-16

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• A case for the name Mbira

  Hugh Tracey

  17-25

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• Patterns of Nsenga Kalimba music

  John Blacking

  26-43

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• Mbira music of Jege A. Tapera

  Andrew Tracey

  44-63

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• A report on the use of stane clappers for the accompaniment of sacred songs: a practice found near the town of Iwo in the western region of Nigeria

  Anthony King

  64-71

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• Modern sculpture and sculptors in east Africa

  C. Todd

  72-76

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• Music of my people (II): dances in Barotseland

  Agrippa Njungu

  77-80

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• The Guitar improvisations of Mwenda Jean Bosco

  David Rycroft

  81-98

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• Tina's lullaby

  Hugh Tracey

  99-101

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• Obituary: Ba Joseph Kiwele - Mrs. E.M. Dougall

  Hugh Tracey

  102

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Letters to the Editor

• Letters to the Editor

  Hugh Tracey (Editor)

  103-104

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Book Reviews

• YORUBA SACRED MUSIC FROM EKITI by ANTHONY KING, Ibadan University Press, Nigeria, 1961, pp. x, 46, xlix (text and music), 8 half-tone illustrations, 8½" x 5½"

  Mercedes Mackay

  105

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• THE STEEL DRUMS OF KIM LOY WONG. An instruction book by PETE SEEGER. Oak Publications, Inc., 121 W. 47th. St., New York, N.Y., U.S.A. 1961, pp. 40, $2.95. To accompany Folkways records FI-8367 and FS-3834, and the film, “Music from Oil Drums”

  Andrew Tracey

  107

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• POESIA SUDANESE. Museum Combonianum, No. 12, by LIVIO TESCAROLI. Editrice Nigrizia, Bologna, 1961. pp. 117.

  A.M. Jones

  107

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• AFRICAN MUSIC AND THE CHURCH IN AFRICA by HENRY WEMAN, trans. Eric J. Sharpe, Swedish Institute of Missionary Research, Domkyrkoplan 2, Uppsala, Sweden, 1960. pp. 296 (31 pp. musical transcriptions) Sw. Kr. 32.50.

  A.M. Jones

  108-109

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• MUNTU: AN OUTLINE OF NEO-AFRICAN CULTURE, by Janheinz Jahn. Translated by Marjorie Greene. Faber and Faber, London, 1961. Ill. 30s.

  John Beatric

  109-110

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• LES CORDOPHONES DU CONGO BELGE ET DU RUANDA-URUNDI by J. S. LAURENTY, 2 vols, 4to. paperback. Vol. I, text with 122 line drawings, 230 pp.; Vol. II, 37 plates and 5 maps. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Beige, Tervuren, Belgium, 1960.

  Basil (Brother Basil)

  110-111

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Records Reviews

• AFRIKA TANZT UND SINGT. “Von Tam-Tam zum Jazz”. Compiled and commentated by Rolf Italiaander. 10" LP, Athena 53137 G. Ariola Schallplatten GMBH, Gütersloh, West Germany.

  Andrew Tracey

  112

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• TIME OUT. The Dave Brubeck Quartet. CBS/ALD 6504. 12" L.P.

  Andrew Tracey

  112-113

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• AFRICA, Music and Life of Today. Vol. 1. 45 r.p.m. EP, Columbia SEYJ 101 and 2. E.M.I. (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd.

  Andrew Tracey

  113-114

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• MUSIC OF AFRICA SERIES No. 17 No. 18 No. 19. All recorded and presented by Hugh Tracey. “More African Stories” - GALP. 1111; “Music from the Roadside - South Africa” - GALP. 1110; “Songs from the Roadside - Rhodesia” - GALP. 1113.

  Brian Kingslake

  114

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• THE MUSIC OF AFRICA: WILD LIFE SERIES Nos. 1 and 2. Birds of the Kruger National Park. Recorded and introduced by Clem Haagner, edited by Hugh Tracey. 45 r.p.m. 7", XTR 1/7044 and XTR 2/7045. International Library of African Music, P.O. Box 138, Roodepoort, Nr. Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.

  R. Liversidge

  114

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Notes and News

• Notes and News

  116-121

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• New issues of I.L.A.M. records

  122-123

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List of Books and Pamphlets Received

• Publications received by the Library

  Hugh Tracey (Editor)

  124

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Contributors to this number

• Contributors to this number

  Hugh Tracey (Editor)

  125

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Back matter

• Backmatter

  Hugh Tracey (Editor)

  [126-127]

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