Vol. 4 No. 3 (1969): African Music: Journal of the African Music Society

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v4i3

Published: 1969-08-01

Front Matter

• African Music, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1969)

  [i-ii]1-4

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Editorial

• Editorial

  [5]

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Articles

• Early historical illustrations of West and Central African music

  Walter Hirschberg

  6-18

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• Cultural genocide

  Alain Daniélou

  19-21

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• Composition techniques in Kiganda xylophone music: with an introduction into some Kiganda musical concepts

  Gerhard Kubik

  22-72

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• Measuring African scales

  Hugh Tracey

  73-77

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• The Mbira class of African instruments in Rhodesia (1932)

  Hugh Tracey

  78-95

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• The tuning of Mbira reeds: a contribution to the craft of Mbira making

  Andrew Tracey

  96-100

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Records Reviews

• VERVE-FORECAST FVS-9510, SOUNDS OF AFRICA. One 12-inch Stereo L.P. from the A.B.C. News, Television Production, "Africa”, edited by Andrew Tracey.

  101

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• FAVORIT F35 102, VERKLINGENDE TROMMELN: Mit Max Lersch im unbekannten Afrika. One 12-inch mono disc of Austrian production. Distributed in Germany by Electrola Gesellschaft mbH, Maarweg 149, D-5 Koln-Braunsfeld.

  101

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• PHILIPS P 08. 672 L, AFRIQUE. One 12-inch mono disc of the series "Voyages Autour du Monde”. FF 19, 95.

  101-102

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• CHRITOPHORUS CLP 75 483, MAKADANGANGA. One 10-inch mono disc. Available from Christophorus-Verlag Herder, Herman-Herder-Strasse 4, i.B. D78 Freiburg West Germany. Price DM 16,-.

  102

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• HARMONIA MUNDI HMO 30.733, MUSIQUES AFRICAINES: CHANTS ET DANSES DE CENTRAFRIQUE. One 12-inch mono disc of good sound quality. Available from Harmonia Mundi, S.A. Capital 280.000, F-04 Saint Michel de Provence, France.

  102

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• MUSIQUE DE TOUS LES TEMPS 44/45: MUSIQUES AFRICAINES: Book with 7-inch 45 r.p.m. disc. Published by Harmonia Mundi Company.

  102

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• OCORA OCR 43. Musique Centrafricaine. Charles Duvelle. LP 12".

  103

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• OCORA OCR 44. Ethiopie, Polyphonies et Techniques Vocales. LP" recorded by Jean Jenkins of the Horniman Museum, London.

  103

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• SWAZI VOCAL MUSIC. David Rycroft. No. 1 of Series of African Music Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren and the Belgishe Radio en Televisie.

  103

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Book Reviews

• LES PYGMEES DE LA HAUTE SANGHA. Maurice Djenda. Geographies, No. 14. Lisbon, 1968. pp. 27-43.

  Andrew Tracey

  104

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• THE LIFE AND WORK OF BENJAMIN TYAMZASHE, A CONTEMPORARY XHOSA COMPOSER, by Diedre D. Hansen. Occasional paper No. 11, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1968. Price 50 cents, pp. 33. Six musical illustrations.

  Andrew Tracey

  104

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• "UN FILM EXPERIMENTAL: BATTERIES DOGON, ELEMENTS POUR UNE ETUDE DE RYTHMES”, L'HOMME. Gilbert Rouget. Revue Francaise d'Anthropologie, V-2, 1965.

  Gerhard Kubik

  104

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• MEHRSTIMMIGKEIT UND TONSYSTEME IN ZENTRAL- UND OSTAFRIKA. Bemerkungen zu den eigenen, im Phonogrammarchiv der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften archivierten Expeditionsaufnahmen. Gerhard Kubik. Communication No. 83 of the Phonogram Archive Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna, 1968.

  George T. Nurse

  105

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• "THE AFRICAN XYLOPHONE”. Lois Anderson. African Arts/Arts D'Afrique. August, 1967.

  Gerhard Kubik

  105

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• INSTRUMENTOS MUSICAIS POPULARES PORTUGUESES. Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira. Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa 1966. (239 pages text, 439 photographs).

  Gerhard Kubik

  106

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• "LIEDERD ER GONJA. MUSIK- UND TEXTANALYSE, NEBST EINIGEN METHODISCHEN BEMERKUNGEN.” A. M. Dauer. Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, Band 92, Heft 2, Braunschweig 1967.

  Gerhard Kubik

  106

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• SWAHILI-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. Charles W. Rechenbach, Bureau of Special Research in Modern Languages, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 20017, U.S.A. 1968, pp. xi, 641. U.S. $18.00.

  Andrew Tracey

  106

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Notes and News

• STEEL DRUMS IN ZAMBIA

  107

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• NATIONAL UNITY PRIZE

  107

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• Gerhard Kubik lectures

  107

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• "Recent Field Research in Folk Music and Folk Dance: Aims and Methods.”

  107

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• CODIFICATION AND TEXTBOOK PROJECT

  108-109

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Letters to the Editor

• Letters to the Editor

  110-111

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List of Books and Pamphlets Received

• Publications received by the Library during the year

  112

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Contributors to this number

• Contributors to this number

  118

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Back matter

• Back Matter

  Hugh Tracey (Editor)

  113-122

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