Vol. 5 No. 2 (1972): African Music: Journal of the African Music Society

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2

Published: 1972-08-01

Front Matter

• African Music, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1972)

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1411

Editorial

• Editorial

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1412

Articles

• Vimbuza or Mashawe: mystic therapy

  A.B. Chilivumbo

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1413

• Possession music of the Shangana-Tsonga

  Thomas F. Johnston

  10-22

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1414

• Musical instrumentation among the San (Bushmen) of the Central Kalahari

  G.T. Nurse

  23-27

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1415

• Transcription of African music from silent film: theory and methods

  Gerhard Kubik

  28-39

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1416

• Les membranophones des Luba-Shankadi

  J.S. Laurenty

  40-45

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1417

• Elephantiasis and music

  A.M. Jones

  46-49

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1418

• Three principles of timing in Anlo dance drumming

  Hewitt Pantaleoni

  50-63

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1419

• Towards understanding the play of atsimevu Atsiã

  Hewitt Pantaleoni

  64-84

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1420

• The original African mbira?

  Andrew Tracey

  85-104

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1421

• The Americanization of three African musical instruments

  Dennis Murphy

  105-111

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1422

Letters to the Editor

• Letters to the Editor

  Andrew Tracey

  112-115

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1423

Book Reviews

• AFRICAN MUSIC ON L.P. AN ANNOTATED DISCOGRAPHY, by Alan P. Merriam, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1970. pp. 200.

  Hugh Tracey

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1424

• MUSICA TRADICIONALE ACULTURADA DOS IKUNG' DE ANGOLA. (Traditional and Acculturated Music of the IKung' of Angola), Estudos de Antropologia Cultural No. 4, by Gerhard Kubik, translated into the Portuguese by Joao de Freitas Branco, Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar, Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Cultural, 1970, 88 pp., ill.NATUREZA E ESTRUTURA DE ESCALAS MUSICAIS AFRICANAS. (Forms and Structure of African Musical Scales), Estudos de Antropologia Cultural No. 3, by Gerhard Kubik, translated into the Portuguese by Joao de Freitas Branco, Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar, Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Cultural, 1970,36 pp.

  Robert Garfias

  117-118

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1425

• "STEP IT DOWN. GAMES, PLAYS, SONGS AND STORIES FROM THE AFRO-AMERICAN HERITAGE”, by Bessie Jones and Bess Lomax Howes. Harper and Row, New York, 1972. pp. 233, with numerous musical scores

  Hugh Tracey

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1426

• BLACK MUSIC OF TWO WORLDS by John Storm Roberts. Praeger, New York, 1972. pp. 286, photographs

  Hugh Tracey, Andrew Tracey

  119

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1427

• KPURANI O! (O My Country), a Zande war song, text and music by Fil Gero. 12 pp.

  Brother Basil Basil

  120

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1428

Notes and News

• Notes and news

  121-122

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1429

Resources for Music Education

• Records and Books for sale

  Andrew Tracey

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1431

Back matter

• Backmatter

  Andrew Tracey

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  DOI: https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v5i2.1432