Vol. 6 No. 1 (1980): African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v6i1

Published: 1980-07-01

Front Matter

• African Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1980)

  [i-ii]1-2

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Editorial

• A word from the editor

  3-4

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• Hugh Tracey 1903 - 1977

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Articles

• Folk music in Nigeria: a communion

  Meki Nzewi

  6-21

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• Appeal for cultural equity

  Alan Lomax

  22-31

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• A study of the drum language in Adzogbo

  David L. Locke, Godwin Kwasi Agbeli

  32-51

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• Modèle standard de Rangées de Carreaux: Pour transcrire les traditions musicales africaines du Cameroun

  Pie-Claude Ngumu

  52-58

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• Rows of squares: A standard model for transcribing traditional African music in Cameroon

  Pie-Claude Ngume, Andrew Tracey

  59-61

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• Panpipes and the equiheptatonic pitch

  A. M. Jones

  62-69

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• Likembe tunings of Kufuna Kandonga (Angola)

  Gerhard Kubik

  70-88

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• Analysis and analytic techniques in African music: A theory of melodic scales

  Laz. E. N. Ekwueme

  89-106

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• The equidistant heptatonic scale of the Asena in Malawi

  Wim Van Zanten

  107-125

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• The relationship between lyrics and melody in Rimi vocal music

  Howard Olson

  126-128

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Book Reviews

• AFRICAN MUSIC, A PEOPLE'S ART by Francis Bebey, George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., London, 1975, viii + 184 pp., illustrations, discography, notes. Translated from ‘Musique de l'Afrique’ (Horizons de France, Paris 1969) by Josephine Bennett.

  A. M. Dauer

  129

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• AFRICAN HYMNODY IN CHRISTIAN WORSHIP: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF ITS DEVELOPMENT by A.M. Jones, Mambo Press, Gwelo, Rhodesia, 1976 (Mambo Occasional Papers — Misso-Pastoral Series No. 8), pp. 64, RS0.65.

  John E. Kaemmer

  129-130

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• IBIBIO MUSIC IN NIGERIAN CULTURE by Samuel Ekpe Akpabot, Michigan State University Press, 1975, pp. 102, $7.50.

  Gerhard Kubik

  130-131

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• AFRICAN MUSIC AND ORAL DATA, A catalog of field recordings 1902-1975 by Ruth Stone and Frank Gillis, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and London, 1976, pp. 412.

  David B. Coplan

  131-132

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• LES MENDZAN DES CHANTEURS DE YAOUNDE: Histoire - Organologie - Fabrication - Systeme de Transcription, by Pie-Claude Ngumu, No. 34, Acta Ethnoligica et Linguistica, Vienna, 1976„ pp. 81, photos, diagrams.

  Jos Gansemans

  132-133

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• Kídàn Dárán Sállá: Music for the Eve of the Muslim Festivals of '?D AL-FITR and '?D AL-KAB?R IN KANO, NIGERIA, by Fremont E. Besmer, published by the African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1974, pp. 84, $2.00.

  K. A. Gourlay

  133-134

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• LEAD US, LORD, a collection of African hymns. Compiled by Howard S. Olson, Augsburg Publishing House, U.S.A., 1977, pp. 22, $1.50.

  A. M. Jones

  134-135

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Contributors to this number

• Contributors to this number

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Letters to the Editor

• Letters to the Editor

  136-138

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Back matter

• Back Matter

  Andrew Tracey (Editor)

  139-140

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