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Vol. 2 No. 4 (1961): African Music: Journal of the African Music Society
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.699
Editorial
Editorial
[5]
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.700
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.701
Negro influences on Indonesia
M.D.W. Jeffreys
10-16
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.702
A case for the name Mbira
Hugh Tracey
17-25
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.703
Patterns of Nsenga Kalimba music
John Blacking
26-43
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.704
Mbira music of Jege A. Tapera
Andrew Tracey
44-63
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.705
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.706
Modern sculpture and sculptors in east Africa
C. Todd
72-76
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.707
Music of my people (II): dances in Barotseland
Agrippa Njungu
77-80
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.708
The Guitar improvisations of Mwenda Jean Bosco
David Rycroft
81-98
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.709
Tina's lullaby
Hugh Tracey
99-101
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.710
Obituary: Ba Joseph Kiwele - Mrs. E.M. Dougall
Hugh Tracey
102
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.711
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Hugh Tracey (Editor)
103-104
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.712
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.713
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.714
POESIA SUDANESE. Museum Combonianum, No. 12, by LIVIO TESCAROLI. Editrice Nigrizia, Bologna, 1961. pp. 117.
A.M. Jones
107
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.715
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.716
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.717
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.718
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.719
TIME OUT. The Dave Brubeck Quartet. CBS/ALD 6504. 12" L.P.
Andrew Tracey
112-113
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.720
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.721
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.722
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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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.723
Notes and News
Notes and News
116-121
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.724
New issues of I.L.A.M. records
122-123
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.725
List of Books and Pamphlets Received
Publications received by the Library
Hugh Tracey (Editor)
124
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.726
Contributors to this number
Contributors to this number
Hugh Tracey (Editor)
125
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.727
Back matter
Backmatter
Hugh Tracey (Editor)
[126-127]
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i4.728
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