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International Library of African Music (ILAM)
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Datasets in Collection
List of Books and Pamphlets Received
Contributors to this number
Kenya's answer to the Mau Mau challenge
The religious element in Mau Mau
Report from the Jeanes School, lower Kabete, Kenya
Letters to the Editor from O. W. Samson, Ernst Emsheimer, Bertil Soderberg, Paul Collaer, Michael G. M. Lane, Douglas Cleverdon, H. Hickmann, H. Pepper, J. K. Louw, Philip Gbeho, John T. Carrington, A. P. Atkins and H. H. Bloomfield
Notes and News
ARTS AND CRAFTS FOR AFRICANS by J. W. Grossert, MA. (Fine Arts), (Organiser of Arts and Crafts, Department of Native Education, Natal). Shuter and Shooter, Pietermaritzburg, 150 pp.
WALL PAINTINGS BY SNAKE-CHARMERS IN TANGANYIKA by H. Cory. Faber, 99 pp.
Some comments on THE ICILA DANCE OLD STYLE by A. M. Jones and L. Kombe, published by Longmans Green for the African Music Society, 1952, 49 pp.
The fascination of the talking drums
Music of the Gold Coast
Initiation a la musique Congolaise
Osborn Awards for the best recordings of African music for the year 1953
The International Library of African Music
Bamboo pipes of the Batetela children
The role of the drummer in Akan society
Song text of the Bashi
The influence of the west African songs of Derision in the new world
East and West, North and South
Notes on an idiophone used in Kabile initiation rites by the Mbae
The talking drums of the Yoruba
Yoruba folk operas
The state of folk music in Bantu Africa
The music of Tiv
Tribal style and free expression
African Music, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1954)
Forward
Editorial
PROBLEMES D’AFRIQUE CENTRALE, No. 26, 4e Trim., 1954 — Numéro consacrè à la Musique Nègre.
List of Books and Pamphlets Received
Contributors to this number
Brief report of a music course conducted at Siriba for the Nyanza Musical Society
Letters to the Editor from Mercedes Mackay and Roger Frances
Notes and News
ETHNO-MUSICOLOGY, by Dr. Jaap Kunst. Published by Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague.
The Lukumbi: a six-toned slit drum of the Batetela
Eight flute tunes from Butembo, east Belgian Congo: an analysis in two parts, musical and physical: Part 1
Choice of music for festivals in Africa
The Shantu music of the Harims of Nigeria
African Music, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1955)
Editorial
Recording African music in the field
Some notes on a theory of African rhythm advanced by Erich von Hornbostel
Extract from “Nights at the Round Table” by W. A. Chislett (The Gramophone).
“MUSIC OF AFRICA” SERIES OF LONG PLAYING RECORDS.
Contributors to this number
List of Books and Pamphlets Received
Contributors to this number
Letters to the Editor
AFRICAN MUSIC FROM THE SOURCE OF THE NILE by Joseph Kyagambiddwa, Frederick A. Pareger, New York, 1955 XII, 255.
FUNERAL DIRGES OF THE AKAN PEOPLE, by J. H. Nketia. Published by Achimota, Gold Coast, 1955. Blocks and Samples of musical transcriptions 296 pp.
DIEUX D’AFRIQUE by Pierre Verger. (Paul Hartmann, Editeur, Paris, 1954) 192 pp., 160 plates.
LES HOMMES DE LA DANSE, by Michel Huet and Keita Fodeba. (Editions Clairefontaine, Lausanne 1954), 135 pp., 162 plates.
DOCTORS, DRUMS AND DANCERS, by Andras D. Laszlo, m.d. (Robert Hale Ltd., London, 1956), 286 pp., illustrated.
Songs of the Ketu cult of Bahia, Brazil
"Negro rhythm in the Americas"- being extracts from an article originally written in Spanish
Society of Ethnomusicology
International Library of African Musicy
Notes and News
Yoruba religious music
The Tuareg of the Ahaggar
Notes on Canon Lury's article
Music in West African churches
Experiments in indigenous church music among the Batetela
The use of African music in the church
The origin of present day musical taste in Nigeria
Yoruba vocal music
A hobbyist looks at Zulu and Xhosa songs
Music in African churches
African Music, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1956)
Editorial
The discovery of multiple rock gongs in Nigeria
Individual names given to talking-gongs in the Yalemba area of Belgian Congo
Osborn and Cowell awards
Contributors to this number
List of Books and Pamphlets Received
Contents of Vol. I of African Music
LES INSTRUMENTS DE MUSIQUE AU BAS-CONGO ET DANS LES REGIONS AVOISINAN- TES: Par Bertil Soderberg. Stockholm: Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, monograph series, publication No. 3, 1956. Pp. 284; 26 plates; 25 text-diagrams; 1 map. 60 kroner
BLACK ORPHEUS. No. 1 September 1957, 52 pps. Ministry of Education, Ibadan, Nigeria
JAMAICAN REVIVALIST CULTS. Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4. December, 1956
International Library of African Music
Songs of the Ketu cult of Bahia (transcriptions)
An example of hammer and chisel music from Liberia
“THE STORY OF SACRED WOOD CARVINGS FROM ONE SMALL YORUBA TOWN”, by H. U. Beier, edited by D. W. Macrow. Printed at Yaba, and published by the Nigeria Magazine, Marina, Lagos
FOLK MUSICIANS IN UGANDA, by K. P. Wachsmann, Ph.D. (Uganda Museum Occasional Paper No. 2); the Uganda Museum, Kampala, 1956
THE KALELA DANCE; ASPECTS OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP AMONG AFRICANS IN NORTHERN RHODESIA, by J. Clyde Mitchell (The Rhodes-Livingstone Papers No. 27), Manchester University Press (preface (dated June, 1956)
UNE TECHNIQUE DE TRANSCRIPTION DE LA MUSIQUE EXOTIQUE (Expériences pratiques) que vient de publier Z. ESTREICHER, du Mustée d’Ethnographie de Neuchatel
LES COLLOQUES DE WEGIMONT (Cercle International d’Etudes Ethno-Musicologiques) edited by Paul Collaer (Elsevier, Bruxelles, 1956)
NOTE SUR LES INSTRUMENTS DE MUSIQUE CONGOLAISE, by Jean-NoelMaquet,Bruxelles, 1956
The dilema of Bantu church music
A Bantu suite for piano, xylophone, whistles and voices
Recording in the lost valley
Notes and News
Letters to the Editor
Four-toned announcements on Mbole talking gongs
Some forms of Bushmen art
Zulu male traditional singing
Modern trends in Ghana music
Musical memories of Nigeria
The Atilogwu dance
Editorial
Drums down the centuries
An African orchestra in Ghana
Backmatter
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY, Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Vol. II, No. 1—3 (January, May and September, 1958)
MUSIQUE CENTRE-AFRICAINE—Extrait du Volume “Afrique Equatoriale Francaise” de L’Encyclopédie Coloniale et Meritime—by Herbert Pepper, 20pp.
“MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, HORNIMAN MUSEUM”, published by the London County Council, pp. 109., 16 plates
“PANORAMA GRAMMATICALE ZANDE” by Fr. Imco and Fr. Gero
List of Books and Pamphlets Received
Contributors to this number
Notes and News
Letters to the Editor
PRESCRIPTIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE MUSIC by CHARLES SEEGER
AFRICAN SONG SAMPLER. Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States of America. 1958
RHYTHMES DU MONDE—Le Bulletin des Missions. Revue trimesttielle, 32e année, 1958, Tome VI, No. 1, Nouvelle Série: Abbaye de St-Andres, Bruges, Belgium
New issues of I.L.A.M. records
Osborn Award 1958
Bequest of I.L.A.M. long playing records
International Library of African Music
I.L.A.M. recording in Swaziland (May 24th to April 3rd)
Report on the I.L.A.M. Nyasaland recording tour (May 7th to June, 1958)
International Folk Music Council
A.M.S. exhibition of African paintings
Music festivals in Africa: notes for the guidance of adjudicators
Wandering from pitch
African music within its social setting
A tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Gustav Holst (1874-1934) and Percy Scholes (1877-1958)
The Begu Zulu vertical flute
African music in Rhodesian native eduction
African music in Christian worship
Organisation of music in Adangme society
African musical instruments in Kenya
Kenya's Colony Music and Drama Officer
BARBOUR, J. Murray and KUTTNER, Fritz A. 1. Meantone Temperament in Theory and Practice. 2. The Theory and Practice of just Intonation. Musurgia Records (P.O. Box 242, Jackson Heights 72, N.Y., U.S.A.). Theory Series A, Nos. 2 and 3. Each 2 s. 12 in. 33-1/3 r.p.m. S (US) 8.75 and 9.25.
Publications received by the Library during the year
Contributors to this number
Backmatter
Letters to the Editor
“STUDIES IN AFRICAN MUSIC” by REV. A. M. JONES. Oxford University Press, 1959. Vols. 1 and 2, pp. 295 and 238, 18 plates etc., 7 gns.
TOWARDS A SOLUTION OF AFRICAN MUSIC PROBLEMS: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE WORK OF FATHER GIORGIETTI
YORUBA DRUMS, Laoye I, Timi of Ede. “Odu”, a journal of Yoruba and related studies, No. 7, March 1959, pp. 5-14.
YORUBA POETRY. Published by the Ministry of Education, Ibadan, Nigeria
SOUND OF AFRICA SERIES. LP (33 1/3 r.p.m.), 12 in. records. The International Library of African Music, P.O. Box 138, Roodepoort, nr. Johannesburg, South Africa
Basutoland recording tour, November 19th to December 3rd, 1959
The sociology of recording in Africa south of the Sahara
Notes and News
Folklore activities of the Musep do Dundo
The lost valley: a feature programme for broadcasting
African and European musical culture in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Recording tour of the Tswana tribe: Western Transvaal and Bechuanaland Protectorate, October - November, 1959
More Kenya musical instruments
The Aku-Ahwa and Aku-Maga post-burial rites of the Jukun peoples of northern Nigeria
"African music", a lecture given at Natal University
Editorial
Changing times
The future of music in Basutoland
Problems of pitch, pattern and harmony in the ocarina music of the Venda
African Music, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1959)
Contributors to this number
Backmatter
THE ORIGIN OF THE KEMANAK by JAAP KUNST. In Bijdragm tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Deel 116, 2e Afl (1960). pp. 263-9, 4 plates.
THE DRUM AND THE HOE - Life and Lore of the Haitian People, by HAROLD COURLANDER, University of California Press, 1960. xvi + 371 pp., 90 photographs, 109 pp. of musical transcriptions.
NATALE NATALE O, words and music by Father F. Giorgietti, F.S.C., Editrice Nigrizia, via Meloncello 3/3, Bologna, Italy, 19 pp., no price given, Zande text with an alternative Latin version.
Notes and News
Report of the Annual General Meeting of the African Music Society
Publications received by the Library
The editor on tour in America
Negro Folksong Scholarship in the United States
Letters to the Editor
Kamba carvers
George W. Cable and two sources of jazz
Music on stamps
Indonesia and Africa: the xylophone as a culture-indicator
The music of my people: an introduction to music Barotseland
Employments of the "standard pattern" in Yoruba music
African Music, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1960)
Editorial
The structure of Kiganda xylophone music
Hymns of the Wabvuwi
Publications received by the Library
Contributors to this number
Backmatter
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.
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.
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.
Notes and News
New issues of I.L.A.M. records
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.
MUNTU: AN OUTLINE OF NEO-AFRICAN CULTURE, by Janheinz Jahn. Translated by Marjorie Greene. Faber and Faber, London, 1961. Ill. 30s.
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.
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.
TIME OUT. The Dave Brubeck Quartet. CBS/ALD 6504. 12" L.P.
Obituary: Ba Joseph Kiwele - Mrs. E.M. Dougall
Letters to the Editor
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"
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”
POESIA SUDANESE. Museum Combonianum, No. 12, by LIVIO TESCAROLI. Editrice Nigrizia, Bologna, 1961. pp. 117.
Music of my people (II): dances in Barotseland
The Guitar improvisations of Mwenda Jean Bosco
Tina's lullaby
Mbira music of Jege A. Tapera
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
Modern sculpture and sculptors in east Africa
Negro influences on Indonesia
A case for the name Mbira
Patterns of Nsenga Kalimba music
African Music, Vol. 2, No. 4 (1961)
Editorial
Physical phenomena which appear to have determined the bases and development of an harmonic sense among Bushmen, Hottentot and Bantu
"THE MUSIC OF CENTRAL AFRICA" by ROSE BRANDEL. Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague. 1961, XII and 272 pp. with 135 pp. of musical examples.
Notes and News
Publications received by the Library
Contributors to this number
Backmatter
Obituary: Hans Cory, O.B.E. 1889-1962
Letters to the Editor
GRAHAM HYSLOP has written a magnificent and Nunc Dimittis (OUP, 1962) set to African melodies for S.A.T.B
AFRICAN MUSIC IN GHANA by J. H. KWABENA NKETIA. Pp. 148 including 30 pp. music transcription and 2 maps. Longmans, 1962.
Musical expeditions of the Venda
Zulu and Xhosa praise-poetry and song
The guitar improvisation of Mwenda Jean Bosco (Part II)
A selected bibliography of periodical articles on the music of the native peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa
The arts in Africa, the visual and the aural
The phenomenon of inherent rhythms in East and Central African instrumental music
The Endara xylophone of Bukonjo
Venda note-names
African Music, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1962)
Editorial
Musical training in Tribal West Africa
Popular music in West Africa
Dancers of the Ivory Coast
Publications received by the Library
Backmatter
Kwanongomo College, Bulawayo
Notes and News
CHURCH LAW AND BANTU MUSIC, by Stephen B. G. Mbunga, approx. 16 x 24 cms., 216 pp. plus XXXI; 1963. 22 Swiss francs (37 sh. or $5.10): Nouvelle Revue de Science Missionnaire, Schoneck-Beckenried, Switzerland (for Southern Africa, payable at P.O. Box 622, Gwelo, S.R.)
LES INSTRUMENTS DE MUSIQUE AU NIGER. Communication presentee par M. Tolia Nikiprowetsky a la Conference “East and West in Music” (Jerusalem, about 1963) with 19 photographs.
DARK MUSIC. Paper presented to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Session 1962-63, by David Rycroft. pp. 24, with maps, illustrations and transcriptions.
MUSICAL COLONIALISM. In Africa Report for January 1963, Alan P. Merriam, the Music Editor, reviews three comercially published records of South African “Town music”.
FOLCLORE MUSICAL DE ANGOLA. Angola Folk Music Collection of Magnetic Tapes and Discs Vol. I. Povo Quioco. Chokwe People. Lisboa 1961.
Letters to the Editor
Bemba music, a summary collected from Bakalamba" elders on culture, religion and music of the Bemba-speaking people in the Northern and Luapula Provinces of Northern Rhodesia.
The development of music
African music from the point of view of the record industry. From a Special Correspondent of The Star, Johannesburg
A Musical Pilgrim's Progress
Discovery of a Trough Xylophone in Northern Mozambique
A Lunda Kalendi
Three tunes for 'Mbira dza Vadzimu'
African Music, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1963)
Editorial
Experiment with a Xylophone key
“MISSA SANDE I”, by STEPHEN PONDE, 6 pages, 1962, clapping indicated for practice only; the Catholic Mission Press, Gwelo, Rhodesia. (No price given).
“MISSA ZANDE”, by Fr. F. GIORGETTI, F.S.C. Discoteca Comboniana, Editrice Nigrizia, via Meloncello 3/3, Bologna, Italy. Recorded by the choir of Missione Africane di Rebbio, directed by P. S. Benedetti and (drums) Prof. Bionda Lonello. 7-inch L.P. “MISA BABA YETU” (Mass “Our Father”) by STEPHEN MBUNGA. Mnsica Verba, available at the Benedictine Seminary of Peramiho, Tanzania, where it was recorded. 7-inch L.P.
Letters to the Editor
Publications received by the Library during the year
Back Matter
“SINCE SINGING IS SO GOOD A THING”. Handbook for Music Teachers and Choir Masters. by GRAHAM HYSLOP. Oxford University Press, Nairobi, 1964. pp. 127.
“AFRICAN SCULPTURE”, by William Fagg and Margaret Plass. 160 pp., fully illustrated with photographs. Studio Vista. London. 18/-.
MUSIK IN RWANDA by ROBERT GUENTHER. Musee Royal de L’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Annales — Serie IN-80 Sciences Humaines — No. 50, 1964.
“DOZE CANCOES DA LUNDA”, Commentarios, transcricoes e harmonizacao de professor maestro Hermino do Nascimento; 1962, in-quarto, 84 pp., Compania de Diamantes de Angola, Rua des Fanqueiros, No. 12, 2", Lisbon. (No price given).
“DOMINE NON SUM DIGNUS”, Filibcrto Giorgetti, F.S.C.L, 1963: a motet with both African and Latin texts; Editrice Nigrizia, via Meloncello 3/3, Bologna, Italy. (No price given).
Makerere University College of East Africa, Kampala
Report on the 1964 Annual Meeting of the Society of Ethnomusicology
The Kwanongoma College of African Music (A branch of the Rhodesian Academy of Music) Newsletter - June, 1964
A SELECTION OF AFRICAN PROSE. 1. Traditional Oral Texts, compiled by W. H. WHITELEY. The Oxford Library of African Literature. Oxford University Press, pp. 200. 1964. 21/-.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology
Tropical African studies
Africans' cultural dilemma
The music of a Lunda Kalendi
Impressions of African Church music
Music in Nigeria
Harp music of the Azande and related peoples in the Central African Republic (Part 1 - Horizontal harp playing)
Recording and studying music in Northern Mozambique. (With drawings and photograph by Helmut Hillegeist)
Popular songs and national identity in Malawi
African metrical lyrics
On a traditional Karanga song
The need for research in African music
Generic names for the Mbira. (A Contribution to Hugh Traceys article A Case for the name Mbira)
African Music, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1964)
Editorial
“MUSIC IN RWANDA", a contribution to the Ethnomusicology of Central Africa by Dr. ROBERT GUNTHER. Tervuren, Belgium, 1964.
PROFESSOR P. R. KIRBY. An excellent bibliography of the works of Professor Percival R. Kirby, a pioneer in the field of African music studies in South Africa, has recently been published by the Johannesburg Public Library, compiled by Valerie Bryer, B. Mus, as part of her fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma in Librarianship.
MISSA SHONA I. — 12" LP. — by STEPHEN M. PONDE. Link Records in association with Mambo Press Rhodesia
Letters to the Editor
Publications received by the Library during the year
Back Matter
LE KALINGA, Tambour Enseigne du royaume et de la dynastie des rois Banyiginya du Rwanda, by Marcel Pauwels, W. F.; pp. 221-256, 17 illustrations and one map. 2. LA MUSIQUE ET LES INSTRUMENTS de la Musique des Noirs de la region de Baudoinville (Congo), by Joseph Weghsteen, W. F.; pp. 85-112, 25 illust. and 15 songs. Both reprints from The Annals of the Pontifical Missionary Museum of Ethnology, Vatican City, Vol. XXVI, 1962, and Vol. XXVIII, 1964, respectively. No price given.
WATOTO WA MUNGU, Benedictine Fathers, Peramiho, Ndanda Mission Press, via Lindi, Tanganyika. 218 pp., paper back. No price given.
MESSA ZANDE in Style Modale Africano: Filberto Giorgetti, F.S.C. Voice partition and organ accompaniment, with chimes and trumpets ad libitum. Editrice Nigrizia, Via Meloncello, 3/3, Bologna. No price given.
A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MUSIC IN AFRICA, by L. P. J. GASKIN, compiled at the International African Institute, under the direction of Professor K. P. Wachsmann, Institute of Ethnomusicology, African Studies Centre, University of California, Los Angeles. London International African Institute (1965). 83 pp. (45/. net).
10 Years of "Ankole sacred music" in the Diocese of Mbabara
Religious musical play
THE STUDY OF FOLKLORE, edited by Alan Dundcs: Prentice-Hall, Ind., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. 482 pp. with 35 illustrations and drawings, six musical illust. and 15 comprehensive maps. No price given.
Kwanongoma College of the Rhodesian Academy of Music
Special issue of 'Composer' (Journal of the Composer's Guild of Great Britain)
Front cover illustration - "They passed on"
Music research in Angola
Towards a text book of Kiganda music
Generic names for the mbira
Zande harp music
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Department of Music. Bulletin 1961-1965
Transcription of Mangwilo xylophone music from film strips
The polyrhythmic foundation of Tswana pipe melody
I.L.A.M. recording tour (South West Africa and north-western Cape)
Music in Uganda
Some music for the Kalumbu
Bemba music. Extract from a lecture by Cajetan Lunsonga (Given at the Mindolo, All-African Music Conference 1965)
Musical appreciation among the Shona in the early thirties
African Music, Vol. 3, No. 4 (1965)
Editorial
Publications received by the Library
Backmatter
CONGO EN MUSIQUE by Bwantsa-Kafungu S. Pierre: Louvanium, 1965.(pp. 52).
“OS INSTRUMENTOS MUSICAIS DE MOZAMBIQUE”, by Margot Dias in GEOGRAPHICA, Ano II, No. 6. April, 1966.
“NDWIYO DZECHECHI DZEVU” (HYMNS OF THE SOIL). Music Edition. Edited by John E. Kaemmer. Church Music Service, P.B. 636E, Salisbury, Rhodesia, pp. 56. 1966. 2s.
YORUBA RELIGIOUS CARVING. Pagan and Christian Sculpture in Nigeria and Dahomey, by KEVIN CARROLL. Foreword by WILLIAM FAGG, GEOFFREY CHAPMAN. 172 pp. £4 10s.
Notes and News
Letters to the Editor
The installation of Inkosi ya Makosi Gomani III
The Text Book Project for African Music
Review article on the book: AFRICA AND INDONESIA: THE EVIDENCE OF THE XYLOPHONE AND OTHER MUSICAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS by A. M. JONES (pp. I-VIII, 1-233. Illus. Tables. Index. Pub. E. J. Brill. Leiden, 1964. Price: 36 Guilders).
Tone and melody in a Congolese popular song
Les anciennes danses des Mpyo
Musical appreciation in central and southern Africa
Editorial
The music of Ankole: the Sheegu pipeband, and the regalia of the royal drum "Bagyendanwa"
Ennanga music
The Arabian influence in the Taureg music
African Music, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1966)
Backmatter
Mocambique-Guatemala
New development in the Trinidadian steel drum
Efik names of some musical instruments
Recording in the old days
Letters to the Editor
Publications received by the Library during the year
Art competition announces for African artists
Extract from a recent letter to Dr. Tracey from Father Corbeil of the Serenje Catholic Mission
Films for loan or purchase
Institute for Scientific Cinematography, Goettingen, West Germany
SCHWANN AMS 15,024, “Missa Shona”, performed by the choir of the Bondolfi Mission under the direction, of the composer, Stefan Magwa Ponde, a 7" 45 t.p.m. mono record for DM 8,-.
CHRISTOPHORUS CLP 75,484, a 10" 33? r.p.m. mono record, cost DM 15,-.
PHILIPS (Dutch) stereo 840,254 BY, “Missa Kwango”, performed by “Les Petits Chanteurs-Danseurs de Kenge” (West Congo) and directed by Pater Bernard van den Boom, SVD. A 12" L.P. cost DM 25,-.
S.A.F.M.A. CONCERT, 6th APRIL, 1967
The first American Music Study group in Ghana: an unofficial report
CHURCH MUSIC FROM AFRICA ON EUROPEAN RECORDS.
CHRISTOPHORUS CLP 73,327. Christi Geburt in der Liturgie der Äthiopier (The Birth of Christ in the Liturgy of the Ethiopians). 10" 33? r.p.m. mono record. Price: DM 15,-.
CHRISTOPHORUS CLP 75,466, “Twenda Na Jesu”, Gesange aus den christlichen Missionen Afrikas (Songs from the Christian Missions in Africa).
SCHWANN AMS 12,017, Geistliche Gesänge aus Dahomey (Christian Songs from Dahomey), a 7" 33? r.p.m. mono record, cost DM 8,- presents Christianized Hanyä songs from Dahomey.
SCHWANN AMS 12,018, Geistliche Gesänge der Mossi, Voltarepublik (Christian Songs of the Mossi). Sung by the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, recorded at the Sisters’ monastery at Manga in 1960. A 7" 33? r.p.m. mono disc of good sound quality. Price DM 8,-.
A. M. Dauer: “STIL UND TECHNIK IM AFRIKANISCHEN TANZ”. Betrachtungen zu den Weltfestspielen aftikanischer Kunst in Dakar 1966. SONDERBEILAGE zur Zeitschrift AFRIKA HEUTE, Nr. 24/67, 15. Dezember 1967, Bonn.
DRUMS IN THE AMERICAS. The history and development of Drums in the New World from the Pre-Columbian Era to Modern Times . . . by Dr. Joseph H. Howard. Oak Publications. New York, 1967. 319 pp. Many figures and illustrations.
WATOTO WA MUNGU, Vol. II. Kitabu cha Mwalimu. Fr. Leo van Kessel and Benedictines of Ndanda-Peramiho. Ndanda Mission Press, 1966. pp. 240. n.p.
VENDA CHILDREN’S SONGS, by John Blacking. Witwatersrand University Press. 1967. Price: R5.50. 210 pages.
“THE LION ON THE PATH AND OTHER AFRICAN STORIES”, told by Hugh Tracey. Illustrated by Eric Byrd. Music transcribed by Andrew Tracey. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1967. 18/- 127 pp.
Popular music in Kenya
Folkmusic and computers
Music in Uganda: a brief report
Ideophonic aspects of some Nyanja drum names
STEEL DRUMS IN ZAMBIA
NATIONAL UNITY PRIZE
Gerhard Kubik lectures
"Recent Field Research in Folk Music and Folk Dance: Aims and Methods.”
CODIFICATION AND TEXTBOOK PROJECT
Letters to the Editor
Publications received by the Library during the year
Contributors to this number
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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.
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.
"THE AFRICAN XYLOPHONE”. Lois Anderson. African Arts/Arts D'Afrique. August, 1967.
INSTRUMENTOS MUSICAIS POPULARES PORTUGUESES. Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira. Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa 1966. (239 pages text, 439 photographs).
"LIEDERD ER GONJA. MUSIK- UND TEXTANALYSE, NEBST EINIGEN METHODISCHEN BEMERKUNGEN.” A. M. Dauer. Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, Band 92, Heft 2, Braunschweig 1967.
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.
MUSIQUE DE TOUS LES TEMPS 44/45: MUSIQUES AFRICAINES: Book with 7-inch 45 r.p.m. disc. Published by Harmonia Mundi Company.
OCORA OCR 43. Musique Centrafricaine. Charles Duvelle. LP 12".
OCORA OCR 44. Ethiopie, Polyphonies et Techniques Vocales. LP" recorded by Jean Jenkins of the Horniman Museum, London.
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.
LES PYGMEES DE LA HAUTE SANGHA. Maurice Djenda. Geographies, No. 14. Lisbon, 1968. pp. 27-43.
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.
The tuning of Mbira reeds: a contribution to the craft of Mbira making
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.
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.
PHILIPS P 08. 672 L, AFRIQUE. One 12-inch mono disc of the series "Voyages Autour du Monde”. FF 19, 95.
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,-.
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.
Editorial
Early historical illustrations of West and Central African music
Cultural genocide
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY SEMINAR IN AFRICA
XYLOPHONES IN THE SUDAN
THE PAN-AFRICAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL - TWO VIEWS
Contributors to this number
Back Matter
AN INTRODUCTION TO EAST AFRICAN MUSIC FOR SCHOOLS by S. Mbabi-Katana. Milton Obote Foundation. Kampala, Uganda.
'MUSIQUE DE L'AFRIQUE' by Francois Bebey. Edition Horizons de France - 19 X 22 cm., 208 pp., 97 illustrations and four line drawings, with a 17 cm. L.P. record. No price, no address of editor given.
FOLK SONG STYLE AND CULTURE, by Alan Lomax, with contributions by the Cantometrics staff and with the editorial assistance of Edwin E. Erickson, Washington, D.C., American Association for the Advancement of Science "Publication No. 88”, 1969. Pp. xx, 363, with 76 tables, 75 charts and graphs, 3 appendices, bibliography, list of sources, index.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF YORUBA CHURCH MUSIC
COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
CONSULTATION ON AFRICAN CHURCH MUSIC
UGANDA NATIONAL CRAFTS SCHEME
Professor Percival R. Kirby, M.A., D.LITT., F.R.C.M., D.MUS. HON.
"MUSIQUE DU BURUNDI” - OCR 40, 33 r.p.m. Disques OCORA, Maison de l'Office de Radio-diffusion Television Francaise, 116 Av. de President Kennedy, Paris.
LUBA-SHANKADI VOCAL MUSIC No. 2 in a series of African music recordings issued by the Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium and the Belgische Radio en Televisie, 1969. 12-inch disc with pamphlet in four languages, pp. 83.
"AN ATTEMPT TO A KINYANKORE CLASSIFICATION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS”, by Paul van Thiel, W.F., Review of Ethnology, No. 13, 1969, pp. 1-5, Institut fur Volkerkunde, Vienna University.
"THE STUDY OF PRIMITIVE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Brief notes on some existing approaches and systems of classification”, by David Rycroft, Review of Ethnology, Volume 1, 1969, No. 14, pp. 1-8, and No. 15, pp. 1-5, Institut fur Volkerkunde, Vienna University
SONGS, DANCES, MIMES AND SYMBOLISM OF VENDA GIRLS' INITIATION SCHOOLS. A series of four articles in African Studies, Volume 28, Nos. 1-4, 1969, by Prof. John Blacking, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Part 1. Vhusha; 2. Milayo; 3. Domba; 4. The Great Domba Song. Total pp. 186, 32 pp. ill., 12 pp. music.
"THE BANTU COMPOSERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA”, by Yvonne Huskisson, South African Broadcasting Corporation, P.O. Box 8606, Johannesburg, South Africa; 1969; pp. 335, illus.
Xizambi friction-bow music of the Shangana-Tsonga
The music of Zumaile village, Zambia
Some music for the Lala Kankobele
Trees and anthills: songs of Karimojong women's groups
On using the Stroboconn
African Music, Vol. 4, No. 4 (1970)
Editorial
Takada drumming
Cewa concepts of musical instruments
The Matepe mbira music of Rhodesia
Ganda xylophone music: another approach
SHONA LITURGICAL SERIES: 29 small LP records. Mambo Press, P.O. Box 779, Gwelo, Rhodesia, 70c each
LA SUPERSTIZIONE ZANDE, by F. Gero. Editrice Nigrizia, via Meloncello, 3/3 Bologna, Italy. 304 pp., 15 musical exs. L.2,200. DEATH AMONG THE AZANDE OF THE SUDAN (Beliefs, Rites and Cult), by F. Gero. Translated from the Italian by W. H. Paxman. Editrice Nigrizia. 184 pp., ill., 13 musical exs., map. L.5,000
“COUNTERPOINT IN AFRICAN MUSIC.” by Fr. F. Giorgetti, F.S.C.
Corrigenda
Back Matter
CODIFICATION OF AFRICAN MUSIC AND TEXTBOOK PROJECT: A PRIMER OF PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD RESEARCH, by Hugh T. Tracey with Gerhard Kubik and Andrew T. N. Tracey (International Library of African Music, 1969). 54 pp.
GRUNDPHANOMENE UND GRUNDBEGRIFFE DES AFRIKANISCHEN UND AFRO-AMERIKANISCHEN TANZES. (Basic phenomena and concepts of the African and Afro-American dance) by Helmut Gunther, Universal Edition, Graz 1969.
NEUE MUSIK IN AFRIKA, ASIEN UND OZEANIEN. DISKOGRAPHIE UND HISTORISCH- STILISTISCHER UBERBLICK (New music in Africa, Asia and Oceania. Discography and historical and stylistic survey), by Wolfgang Laade, published by the author, Heidelberg, 1971. GEGENWARTSFRAGEN DER MUSIK IN AFRIKA UND ASIEN, eine grundlegende Bibliographic (Contemporary enquiries into the music of Africa and Asia, a basic bibliography), by Wolfgang Laade, Verlag Valentin Koerner, Baden-Baden, 1971
MBIRA MUSIC OF RHODESIA, performed by Abraham Dumisani Maraire. 12-inch Stereo LP, with 12 page booklet — “Mbiras and Performance in Rhodesia” by Abraham Dumisani Maraire, introduction by Robert Kauffman. University of Washington Ethnic Music Series, UWP-1001, Robert Garfias, General Editor, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1971
The musical dimension of perception in the upper Congo, Zae
Les cordophones des Luba-Shankadi
Shangana-Tsonga drum and bow rhythms
The nyanga panpipe dance
Letters to the Editor
Towards a notation and tablature for the kora and its application to other instruments
Standard drum patterns in Nigeria
Questionnaire d'Enquêite sur les instruments de musique Africaine traditionelle
Questionnaire into traditional African musical instruments
Editorial
The social mechanics of good music: a description of dance clubs among the Anlo Ewe-speaking people of Ghana
African Music, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1971)
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.
"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
BLACK MUSIC OF TWO WORLDS by John Storm Roberts. Praeger, New York, 1972. pp. 286, photographs
KPURANI O! (O My Country), a Zande war song, text and music by Fil Gero. 12 pp.
Notes and news
Records and Books for sale
Backmatter
Les membranophones des Luba-Shankadi
Elephantiasis and music
Three principles of timing in Anlo dance drumming
Towards understanding the play of atsimevu Atsiã
The original African mbira?
The Americanization of three African musical instruments
Letters to the Editor
AFRICAN MUSIC ON L.P. AN ANNOTATED DISCOGRAPHY, by Alan P. Merriam, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1970. pp. 200.
Possession music of the Shangana-Tsonga
Musical instrumentation among the San (Bushmen) of the Central Kalahari
Transcription of African music from silent film: theory and methods
African Music, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1972)
Editorial
Vimbuza or Mashawe: mystic therapy
THE MUSIC OF CENTRAL AFRICA by Rose Brandel. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, reprinted 1973, original edition 1961
Notes and News
The "sound of Africa" series
Backmatter
'Principles governing the construction of the Silimba, a xylophone type found among the Lozi of Zambia', by Atta Annan Mensah.'Ghanaian xylophone studies', by Mitchel Strumpf.'Oral notation of some West and Central African time-line patterns', by Gerhard Kubik. 'Fieldwork in African music', by John Blacking
FOLK AND TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF THE WESTERN CONTINENTS by Bruno Nettl. Prentice-Hall, History of Music Series, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, revised edition 1973 (original edition 1965)
PAREDON P 1002 -ANGOLA: A VITORIA E CERTAI VICTORY IS CERTAIN! Songs of the Liberation Army of M.P.L.A. 12-inch mono L.P., with 16 page booklet edited by Pat Payandeh. Produced by Barbara Dane. "Recorded in the liberated zones by members of the Liberation Support Movement.” Paredon Records, P.O. Box 889, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11202, U.S.A. $4-50 in U.S. $5-00 elsewhere by I.M.O.
HOW MUSICAL IS MAN ? by John Blacking. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1973. $6-95.
DANCES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. Produced and filmed by Gei Zantzinger, edited Conley Benfield, sound Ruth Zantzinger. 16 mm. colour, 53 minutes, commentary Dr. Hugh Tracey, interview with Andrew Tracey. Distributed through Pennsylvania State Psychological Cinema Register, Audio-Visual Department
BAFIA KAMEROEN and YAKA-MUZIEK Nos. 7 and 8 in a series of African music recordings issued by the Musee Royale de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium and the Belgische Radio en Televisie, 1972. 12" L.P. with booklet in four languages, pp. 49 and 60
CONTRIBUTION A L'ETUDE DE LA MUSIQUE SACREE ZARMA SONGHAY by Bernard Surugue, Etudes Nigeriennes No. 30, Centre Nigerien de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Niamey, Niger Republic, 1972, pp. 63, viii, plates, diagrams, maps
Some preliminary notes on the music of the Cwezi cult in Ankole (Western Uganda)
Recherche ethnomusicologique au Rwanda
Some patterns of rhythm and harmony in kalumbu music
The kondi of Sierra Leone
Mohambi xylophone music of the Shangana-Tsonga
Letters to the Editor
MUSIQUE DAN: La musique dans la pensee et la vie sociale d'une socidte africaine, by Hugo Zemp, Cahiers de l'Homme, Nouvelle Serie XI, Paris, Mouton, 1971. pp. 320, illus., maps, tables, song texts, glossary, bibliography and discography
Editorial
A model for the study of African music
African music in Christian liturgy: the igbo experiment
Some sources of music in Western Sudan from 1300-1700
The bull-roarer in history and in antiquity
Luo music and its rhythm
African Music, Vol. 5, No. 3 (1973/4)
DANCE AND SOCIETY IN EASTERN AFRICA 1890-1970 - The Beni Ngoma by T.O. Ranger, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1975, pp. xiv and 176, maps, index
THE MUSIC OF AFRICA by J.H. Kwabena Nketia, (Gollancz) London, 1975, pp. x+278, £4.00, copyright 1974 by W.W. Norton Inc.
Films on African music
Backmatter
HUMBI EN HANDA - ANGOLA. Recording and commentary by Gerhard Kubik. One 12” 33â…“ rpm disc, 1973. Belgisches Radio en Televisie 6803 044 (No. 9 of a series issued by the Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, Tervuren). Notes in German and Flemish, with summaries in French and English, 80 pp., music, photos
MUSIK DER GOITER, GEISTER UND MENSCHEN by Wolfgang Laade. Die Musik in der mythischen, fabulierenden und historischen Uberlieferuhg der Volker Afrikas, Nordasiens, Amerikas und Ozeaniens. Eine Quellensammlung. Coll, d'etudes musicologiques, Vol. 58, Valentin Koemer, Baden-Baden 1975, 344 pp., 28 ill.
Luo music
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF EAST AFRICA, 1 KENYA by Graham Hyslop, Nelson Africa Ltd, P.O.Box 73146, Nairobi, 1975, pp. viii, 64, photos, transcriptions
SWEET WORDS. STORYTELLING EVENTS IN BENIN by Dan Ben-Amos. A publication of the Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia, 1975.
THE KACHAMBA BROTHERS' BAND: a study of neo-traditional music in Malawi by Gerhard Kubik. University of Zambia, Institute for African Studies, Zambian Papers No. 9, P.O. Box 900, Lusaka, Zambia, 1974, pp. 75, x, plates, diagrams, bibliography, K2.50, £2.25
Swahili epic poerty: a musical study
Music and spirit possession at a Shona Bira
A new world mbira: the Caribbean marimbula
The talking drums of Nigeria
The Zulu bow songs of Princess Magogo
Musical bows in south-western Angola, 1965
African Music, Vol. 5, No. 4 (1975/6)
Editorial
Les mendzaŋ des ewondo du Cameroun
Structural levels of rhythm and form in African music: with particular reference to the West Coast
Letters to the Editor
Back Matter
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.
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.
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.
LEAD US, LORD, a collection of African hymns. Compiled by Howard S. Olson, Augsburg Publishing House, U.S.A., 1977, pp. 22, $1.50.
Contributors to this number
The relationship between lyrics and melody in Rimi vocal music
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.
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.
IBIBIO MUSIC IN NIGERIAN CULTURE by Samuel Ekpe Akpabot, Michigan State University Press, 1975, pp. 102, $7.50.
Likembe tunings of Kufuna Kandonga (Angola)
Analysis and analytic techniques in African music: A theory of melodic scales
The equidistant heptatonic scale of the Asena in Malawi
Modèle standard de Rangées de Carreaux: Pour transcrire les traditions musicales africaines du Cameroun
Rows of squares: A standard model for transcribing traditional African music in Cameroon
Panpipes and the equiheptatonic pitch
Appeal for cultural equity
A study of the drum language in Adzogbo
African Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1980)
A word from the editor
Hugh Tracey 1903 - 1977
Folk music in Nigeria: a communion
Mwenda Jean Bosco's comeback
Contributors to this issue
Back Matter
Parallelisms in traditional African system of music education and Orff schulwerk
The "Henrique Preto" Samba
Songs and Tales of the Arimi of Tanzania
Evidence for the Indonesian origins of certain elements of African culture: A review, with special reference to the arguments of A.M. Jones
The gora and the 'grand' gom-gom
The Manding/Fula relations as reflected in the Manding song repertoire
Long trumpets of northern Nigeria - in history and today
African Music, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1982)
A word from the editor
Effutu Asafo: Its organization and music
A history of Kenyan guitar music: 1945-1980
Back Matter
IWALEWA-HAUS, BAYREUTH
REPORT ON CULTURAL FIELD RESEARCH IN MANGOCHI DISTRICT, MALAWI, July 15 to August 25, 1983
ERRATA
Contributors to this number
From Gerhard Kubik: Lisbon
SAUDI ARABIAN DONATION TO SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
STEELBAND WORKSHOP IN GERMANY
AMADU BANSANG JOBARTEH; MASTER OF THE KORA, Eavadisc EDM 101, Cambridge Audio-Visual Ethnomusicological Archive, 1978.
Conferences: Grahamstown
Conferences: Paris
From Gerhard Kubik: West Berlin
SOUTH AFRICAN MUSIC ENCYCLOPEDIA. Volume II,E to I. Ed. by Jacques P. Malan. Cape Town; Oxford University Press; 1982, pp. 513, illus.. music.
AFRICAN RHYTHM AND AFRICAN SENSIBILITY, AESTHETICS AND SOCIAL ACTION IN AFRICAN MUSICAL IDIOMS by John Miller Chernoff, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1979, pp. 261, photographs, $20.00.
MUSIK IN AFRIKA: Artur Simon (ed.). Essays by Alfons Dauer, Ludwig Gerhardt, Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Gerhard Kubik, Artur Simon and Hans-Heinrich Wangler. Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin, 1983. German text, 432 pp. 52 black and white, 11 colour photographs, transcriptions, drawings, two stereo cassettes.
MUSIKGESCHICHTE IN BILDERN — OSTAFRIKA. Vol. No..10, Ethnomusicological Series of VEB DeutscherVerlag fur Musik, Leipzig, 1982. By Gerhard Kubik with the cooperation of Jim de Vere Allen, Margot Dias, Ashenafi Kebede, Artur Simon and John Wembah-Rashid, general editor Werner Bachmann, pp.250,170 photographs colour and BW, diagrams, music. DDR 48.00 Mark, Order No. 518 211 9.
Zulu women's music
Malawian pango music from the viewpoint of information theory
The use of metaphor and certain scale patterns in traditional music of Botswana
THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS edited by Stanley Sadie, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., London, 1981, 20 vols., 18 000 pp., 4 500 illustrations, 3 000 music examples, £850.00.
Rhythmic design in the support drums of Agbadza
Notes on musical instruments among the Fulani of Diamare (north Cameroon)
Enseignement et Identité Culturelle: L'incidence des programmes occidentaux sur l'attitude des étudiants
African Music, Vol. 6, No. 3 (1983)
A word from the Editor
Back Matter
Research project on "Systems of traditional education in Malawi” (the continuation: September 1983 to February 1984) by Dr. Gerhard Kubik
EAST AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC. From Alex Seago, Richmond College, London, 1985.
Contributors to this number
MUSIC FROM MOZAMBIQUE, CHOPI TIMBILA. Two orchestral performances recorded in Zavala, Inhambane Province, Mozambique 1981, by Ron and Ophera Hallis. No. FE 4318, Folkways Records, 43 W 61st St. NYC, USA 10023.
MUSIC FROM MOZAMBIQUE III. Cordophonic instruments, wooden xylophone, percussion, by Ron and Ophera Hallis, 1983. No.FE.4319, Folkways Records, 43 W. 61st St, NYC, USA 10023.
THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF AFRICAN MUSIC
African music activities of the Department of Ethnomusicology at the Ethnographical Museum of Berlin (West) by Prof. Dr. Artur Simon
TRADITION AFRIKANISCHER BLASORCHESTER UND ENTSTEHUNG DES JAZZ, by Alfons Michael Dauer, 2 volumes, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Graz. Volume 7 in the series Studies in Jazz Research edited by The International Society for Jazz Research and by The Institute for Jazz Research at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, 1985. Text section: 240 pp, music, photographs and drawings. Notation section: 204 pp, 68 transcriptions of 51 music examples.
LES SANZA, Collections d'instruments de musique, by Frangois Borel. Musee d'Ethnographic, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1986. pp. 181
IKOLI HARCOURT WHYTE, THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC: A CASE OF MUSICAL ACCULTURATION IN NIGERIA by Achinivu Kanu Achinivu, 2 vols. Beitrage zur Ethnomusikologie, No.7. Hamberg: Verlag der Musikalienhandlung, Karl Dieter Wagner, 1979. Vol. 1: 456 p., music; vol.2: 194 p., music, texts.
Une Analyse de la "Messe Katangaise" de Joseph Kiwele
Children's music of the Shangana-Tsonga
Giriama and Digo dance styles
ANGOLAN TRAITS IN BLACK MUSIC, GAMES AND DANCES OF BRAZIL, A study of African cultural extensions overseas, by Gerhard Kubik, Junta de Investigacoes Cientificas do Ultramar, Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Cultural, No. 10, Lisbon, 1979. pp 55, photographs.
THE MANDINKA BALAFON: An introduction with notation for teaching, by Lynne Jessup, illustrated by Mary McConnell, Xylo Publications, La Mesa, California, 1983. Including two cassettes, pp 191, photographs, music
Idoma musical instruments
African space/time concepts and the Tusona ideographs in Luchazi culture
Ese music: honours for the dead: status for the sponsor
African Music, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1987)
A word from the Editor
The construction and manipulation of temporal structures in Yeve cult music: A multi-dimensional approach
Classification of Igbo musical instruments, Nigeria
The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan Press: New York: Grove's Dictionary of Music, 1984. [Vol.I, xxvi, 805p; Vol.II, xiii, 982p; Vol.HI, xiii, 921p]
Contributors to this issue
Back Matter
Notes on new and old world African drumming: just playing it like you mean it is not playing
Early Field Recordings: A Catalogue of Cylinder Collections at the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music, edited by Anthony Seeger and Louise S. Spear. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1987. xviii plus 198 pp. (Reprinted from Journal of Contemporary African Studies Vol.7 No. 1/21988 by permission)
Samba Ng'oma eight - The drum chime of Mário Sabuneti
Brass bands and the beni phenomenon in urban east Africa
Kambazithe Makolekole and his valimba group: a glimpse of the technique of the Sena xylophone
A word from the Editor
Black South African urban music since the 1890's: some reminiscences of Alfred Assegai Kumalo (1879-1966)
Umngqokolo: Xhosa overtone singing and the song nondel'ekhaya
Sengenya dance music: its intrumental resources and performance
African Music, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1991)
MUSIC AT MMABANA CULTURAL CENTRE, P.O. Box X2170, Mafikeng, Bophuthatswana (South Africa). Achilles Mukasa Bukenya writes
Contributors to this issue
Back Matter
Corrigenda
Call for performing groups, and for papers, workshops, posters, 21ST BIENNIAL WORLD CONFERENCE OF I.S.M.E. (International Society for Music Education), Tampa, Florida, U.S.A, 18-23 July 1994.
NETWORK FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC (NETIEM)
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS (CIMCIM)
Report on pitch perception experiments carried out in Buganda and Busoga (Uganda)
Report on research in Lesotho
The genesis of urban music in Zaire
The Nyanga/Ngororombe Panpipe Dance: 1.Thunga la ngororombe - the panpipe dance group of Sakha Bulaundi
The Nyanga/Ngororombe Panpipe Dance: 2.Some dance steps for the Nyanga panpipe dance
Musical instruments, songs and dances of the Chokwe (Dundo region, Lunda district, Angola)
The impact of rural-urban migration on a village music culture: some implications for applied ethnomusicology
"They sing our origins": a study of the lungsi drummers of Mampurugu
John Blacking: a personal tribute
Music in Nigerian education
Youth songs: a type of Igbo choral music in Igbo Christian worship
African Music, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1992)
"ROOTS OF RHYTHM: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF EAST AFRICA", video with booklet, Jacaranda Designs Ltd, Nairobi, 1995.
ORIGINS OF THE POPULAR STYLE: THE ANTECEDENTS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY POPULAR MUSIC, by Peter van der Merwe, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989, pp.352.
Lesotho Academy of Arts
THREE KILOS OF COFFEE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Manu Dibango, in collaboration with Danielle Rouard, translated by Beth G. Raps, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1994, 146pp, index, discography, photographs.
AFRICAN STARS: STUDIES IN BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN PERFORMANCE, by Veit Erlmann, Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology, edited by Philip V. Bohlman and Bruno Nettl.) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991, xxi plus 214 pp., music examples, photos, bibliography, index.
SHABA DIARY: A TRIP TO REDISCOVER THE 'KATANGA' GUITAR STYLES AND SONGS OF THE 1950s AND '60s, by John Low, Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica Nr.54, Ed. Engelbert Stiglmayr, Series Musicologica 4 Series Africana 16, Wien-Fohrenau, 1982. Co-eds: Franz Fodermayr, Anna Hohenwart-Gerlachstein, Gerhard Kubik, 125 pp., photo, music examples, bibliography, discography.
DANIEL KACHAMBA MEMORIAL CASSETTE, ed. Mitchell Strumpf, with commentary booklet, 26pp, by Gerhard Kubik, University of Malawi, Zomba, 1992.
LIEDER IN ERZÄHLUNGEN DER BULSA: EINE MUSIKETHNOLOGISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG, by Ulrika Blanc, Forschungen zu Sprachen und Kulturen Afrikas, Band 3, LIT Verlag, Munster und Hamburg, 1993.
JUKWAA LA TAARAB - ZANZIBAR, by Issa Mgana, Mediafrica Books, Helsinki 1991, 10lpp, photos, charts, song texts, KiSwahili text.
MYTH, RITUAL AND KINGSHIP IN BUGANDA, by Benjamin C. Ray, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1991,239pp., illus., photos.
ZENTRALAFRIKA: MUSIKGESCHICHTE IN BILDERN, by Jos Gansemans and Barbara Schmidt-Wrenger, VEB Deutscher Verlag fur Musik, Leipzig, 1986, Band I, Musikethnologie, Lieferung 9, 210 pages, 238 pictures (partly in colour), map, musical transcriptions and other text illustrations, ISBN 3-370-00150-0.
CAPOEIRA, SAMBA, CANDOMBLÉ: AFRO-BRASILIANISCHE MUSIK IM RECÔNCAVO, BAHIA, by Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin, Neue Folge 52, Abteilung Musikethnologie VII), Berlin, 1991, 264pp., ill., bibl., index.
AFRICAN MUSIC: A PAN-AFRICAN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Carol Lems-Dworkin, Hans Zell Publishers, London, 1991, xvii + 382pp, 2 indexes.
MUSIC IN HUMAN LIFE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MUSIC, by John E. Kaemmer, University of Texas Press, 1993, ISBN 0 292 74314 9, 245pp, b/w plates, musical examples, diagrams, glossary, index.
A HANDBOOK OF MUSICAL AND OTHER SOUND-PRODUCING INSTRUMENTS FROM EQUATORIAL GUINEA AND GABON, by Ã…ke Norborg, Musikmuseets, Stockholm, No 16, 1989, pp.469.
MAKING MUSIC: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN ZIMBABWE PAST AND PRESENT, by Claire Jones, Academic Books, Harare, 1992, 183pp, photos, transcriptions, diagrams.
SOSIO-ETNIESE DANSE VAN DIE VENDA VROU, by Cora Bumett-van Tonder, HAUM, Pretoria, 1987, 155pp, 62 line drawings, 23 colour plates, music and dance transcriptions, Tshivenda glossary, index, Afrikaans text.
WEST AFRIKA: MUSIKGESCHICHTE IN BILDERN, by Gerhard Kubik, VEB Deutscher Verlag fur Musik, Leipzig, 1989, Band I, Musikethnologie, Lieferung 11, ed. Werner Bachmann, 222pp, illustrations, appendix, bibliography.
EXTENSIONEN AFR1KANISCHER KULTUREN IN BRASILIEN, by Gerhard Kubik, Alano, Edition Herodot, Aachen, 1991, German text.
MARABI NIGHTS: EARLY SOUTH AFRICAN JAZZ AND VAUDEVILLE, by Cristopher Ballantine, Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1993, 1 l6pp, with cassette.
WEST AFRICAN POP ROOTS, by John Collins, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1992. - AFRICA O-YE!: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN MUSIC, by Graeme Ewens, Da Capo Press, New York, 1991. - BREAKOUT: PROFILES IN AFRICAN RHYTHM, by Gary Stewart, University of Chicago Press, 1992.
AFRICAN MUSIC: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO THE TRADITIONAL, POPULAR, ART, AND LITURGICAL MUSICS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, by John Gray, Greenwood Press, New York, 1991, xii + 499pp, 3 appendixes, 4 indexes.
THE SOUL OF MBIRA TWENTY YEARS ON:A RETROSPECT, Part 1: THE SOUL OF MBIRA: MUSIC AND TRADITIONS OF THE SHONA PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE, by Paul Berliner, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1994 (first published Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, 1978), 312pp, illustrations, transcriptions, appendices, index.
THE SOUL OF MBIRA TWENTY YEARS ON:A RETROSPECT, Part 2: THE SOUL OF MBIRA: MUSIC AND TRADITIONS OF THE SHONA PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE, by Paul Berliner, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1994 (first published Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, 1978), 312pp, illustrations, transcriptions, appendices, index.
MASKED MEN DANCING AND THE LORDSHIP OVER LAND: a review essay - MAKISINYAU MAPIKO: MASKENTRADITIONEN IN BANTU-SPRACHIGEN AFRIKA, by Gerhard Kubik, Munchen: Trickster Verlag, 1993.
MALAWIAN MUSIC: A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS, Gerhard Kubik, assisted by Moya Aliya Malamusi, Lidiya Malamusi and Donald Kachamba, Centre for Social Research and Department for Fine and Performing Arts, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, 1987.
Stringed instrument traditions in southern Malawi
Sesotho music: a contemporary perspective
African methods of music education: some reflections
Fact, ideology and paradox: African elements in early Black South African Jazz and Vaudeville
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NIGHTSONG: POWER AND PRACTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA, by Veit Erlmann, Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press 1996
AFRICA FOLK MUSIC ATLAS, hardbound book, CD-ROM and 3CD-Audio, edited by Leonardo D'Amico and Francesco Mizzau, 1997, Firenze, Italy: Amharsi Edizioni Multimediali. 93pp.
ILAM digitisation project
Films on African music
MUSICS OF THE WORLD'S CULTURES: A SOURCE BOOK FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS, editors: Barbara Lundquist and C.K. Szego with Bruno Nettl, Ramon Santos and Einar Solbu, published by the Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education (CIRCME) for the International Society for Music Education (ISME), 1998. 234 pp.
VIDEOS OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-RELATED PERFORMANCE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Carol Lems-Dworkin, Evanston, Ill.:Lems-Dworkin Publishers 1996, xx-331pp.
THINKING IN JAZZ: THE INFINITE ART OF IMPROVISATION, by Paul Berliner, Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology, University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 883 (music texts 250pp)
Ethnomusiological education for a humane society: ethical issues in the post-colonial, post-apartheid era
On teaching Americans to play mbira like Zimbabweans
Africa and Indonesia reconsidered
Singing Psalms with owls: a Venda twentieth century musical history
Koo Nimo: a contemporary Ghanaian musician
Gumboots, Bhaca migrants, and Fred Astaire: South African worker dance and musical style
Some music traditions of Malawi
Ennanga harp songs of Buganda: Temutewo Mukasa's "gganga alula"
Fieldwork in Lango, northern Uganda Feb-Mar 1997
The evolution of urban music in Democratic Republic of Congo during the 2nd and 3rd decades (1975-1995) of the Second Republic-Zaire
The ndongo bowl lyre of the Baganda: an examination of its sonic properties
Xylophone music of Uganda: theembaire of Nakibembe, Busoga
African Music, Vol. 7, No. 4 (1999)
Dr. David Kenneth Rycroft, 7 December 1924 - 8 August 1997
The musical scene in Uganda views from without and within
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The Collection of Father Franz Mayr: Zulu Recordings 1908. Sound documents from the phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The complete historical collections 1899-1950. Series 10. Dietrich Schuller, general editor. Phonogrammarchiv der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften OAW CD 25, 2007. ISBN 978-3-7001-3827-3. Two audio CDs, one CD-ROM with 64 page booklet.
Poetry and Languid Charm, 2007: Swahili Music From Tanzania and Kenya - From the 1920s to the 1950s. Topic Records Ltd. - TSCD 936. Compiled by Janet Topp Fargion, Curator, World and Traditional Music Section, British Library Sound Archive. One compact disc. Booklet (15 pp.) with notes by Janet Topp Fargion and photographs.
Hip-Hop Colony. DVD. Michael Wanguhu, director, 2007. Chatsworth, CA: Emerge Media Group.
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The World of South African Music: A Reader. Lucia, Christine, editor. 2005. Cambridge Scholars press: Newcastle, UK. Includes List of musical Examples (xii- xiv), a List of Illustrations (xv-xvi), References, a List of Sources and an Index, 368 pp.
Journey of Song: Public Life and Morality in Cameroon. Clare A. Ignatowski. 2006. Bloomington: Indiana University press. xv. 223 pp., 36 black and white photographs, maps, bibliography, index.
Baakisimba: Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda. Sylvia A. Nannyonga-Tamusuza, 2005. 294 pp., 13 figures, 19 plates. New York: Routledge (Current Research in Ethnomusicology Series). Jennifer C. post, series editor.
Updating the San: Image and Reality of an African People in the 21st Century. Robert Hitchcock, Kazunobu Ikeya, Megan Biesele and Richard Lee, editors. 2006. Senri Ethnological Studies no. 70, Osaka, Japan: National Museum of Ethnonology. ISSN 03876004; ISBN 4-901 906-43-7 C3039. v. 304 pp., maps, figures.
Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal. 2007. Patricia Tang. Philedelphia: Temple University press. xiv, 209 pp., 36 illustrations and transcriptions, glossary, bibliography, discography, index, CD (African Soundscapes Series). Gregory Barz, (series editor).
Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World. Taylor, Timothy D. 2007. Durham: Duke University Press. xv, 304 pp., 16 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Worksongs. Ted Gioia. 2006. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 350 pp., notes, recommended listening, bibliography, index.
The Mwera lamellophone Luliimba
Pierre Gwa - Mpyemõ Guitarist: His Songs and Their Sources Central African Republic, 1966
Singing Psalms with owls: A Venda 20th century musical history part two: tshikona, beer songs and personal songs
Umakhweyane: A Musical bow and its contribution to Zulu music
On polyphonic construction: An analysis of Ju|'hoan vocal music (Namibia)
African Music, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2007)
From the Editor
TRACKLIST Volume 8 number 2, 2008
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African Music. Sandtracks. 2007. Tiris; produced and arranged by Kad and Momo Hafsi. Sandblast Arts. SBCD001. One compact disc. Liner notes in English by Garth Cartwright, with photography by Rif Spahni and Simon Thorpe.
The Very Best of Hugh Tracey: from the monumental cd series 'Historical Recordings by Hugh Tracey'. SWP Records. SWP034/HT022. Compiled by Michael Baird in collaboration with ILAM. One compact disc, no accompanying booklet. Lesotho Calling: Lesiba and Sekhankula Music. SWP Records. SWP 033. Recorded and compiled by Michael Baird in collaboration with Dada Moqasa of Lesotho Broadcasting. One compact disc, with 22-page booklet and notes by Michael Baird.
Zanzibara. 4 volume CD series, published by Buda Musique, Werner Graebner, producer. Detailed booklets for each volume in French and English. Titles: Ikwani Safaa Musical Club Volume 1; L'age d'or du taarab de Mombasa Volume 2; Ujamaa, le son des annees 60 en Tanzanie Volume 3; La memoire de la musique zanzibaraise, Volume 4.
Errata: Volume 8, Number 1 (2007)
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Composing Apartheid: Music for and against Apartheid, Edited by Grant Olwage, Wits University Press: Johannesburg. 2008, 311 pages.
In Township Tonight: South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre, David B. Coplan, University Of Chicago Press; 2nd edition. 2008, 455 pages, Paperback: ISBN-10: 0226115674, ISBN-13: 978-0226115672.
Zimbabwe Mbira Music on an International Stage: Chartwell Dutiro's Life in Music, Edited by Cartwell Dutiro and Keith Howard, SOAS Musicology Series, Ashgate: London. 2007, 98 pages, with CD: "Taanerimwe”, Chartwell Dutiro with Spirit Talk Mbira Live at Gateway (Gateway, SOAS Cat.No. SOASIS - 03), Hardbound: ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5799-6.
The Flamboyant Rooster and other Tshivenda Song Stories, Edited by Jaco Kruger and Ina le Roux, Illustrated by Deon Coetzer, School of Music, North-West University, Potchefstroom: South Africa. 149 pages.
Zimbabwe Children's Singing Games, DVD by Natalie Kreutzer (2007), Lionel Hampton School of Music, University of Idaho
Siaka, an African Musician, 80 minutes, DVD. An African Brass Band, 72 minutes, DVD. Author and Producer-Director: Hugo Zemp
The hidden transcripts of sacred song in a South African coloured community
Historicizing Kwaito
The Adoption of the Circumcision Ritual bèkà by the Baka-Pygmies in Southeast Cameroon
Popular Music Censorship in Africa, Edited by Martin Cloonan and Michael Drewett, Ashgate: London (2006), 228 pages, including index, Hardbound: ISBN-13: 978-075467291-5, ISBB-10: 0-7546-5291-2.
From the Editor
Music Performance on 19th-Century Sukuma-Nyamwezi Caravans to the Swahili Coast
Of youth-harps and songbirds: the sweet music of Wasulu
African Music, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2008)
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TRACKLIST Volume 8 number 3, 2009
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Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu s Zaire, Bob W. White, Duke University Press, 2008, 300 pp., paperback: 978-0-8223-4112-3.
Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-Drumming Community in Ghana: Our Music Has Become a Divine Spirit, James Bums, Surrey, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009, 199 pp., DVD, hardbound: 978-0-7546-6495-6.
Kitaffe, 2007, Damascus Kafumbe, Endongo Records 751937326021. One compact disc (45:57) containing eight tracks, all composed, arranged and performed by Damascus Kafumbe. Liner notes include translations and interpretations by Damascus Kafumbe with eight colour photographs by Richard Duncan. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Troy Stoner at Ilmli Studios, Tallahassee, FL, USA. Available at Amazon, com, CDbaby.com, CDuniverse.com, musicimport.biz, and soon at endongo.com.
Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From the Acoustic Planet Vol. 3, the Africa Sessions, 2009, Bela Fleck, produced by Bela Fleck. Rounder/Umgd CDROUN0634. One compact disc. 32-page booklet with liner notes by Fleck and photography by Dave Sinko, Joel Hamburger, Dave Bergen, Sascha Paladino and Nicole Smaglick.
NEWS FROM ILAM: Digital Heritage Repatriation Workshop: 9-11 December 2008
Teaching-learning processes in Muziki wa Injili in Dar es Salaam
Locating hope in performance: lessons from Edward Kabuye
The Serankure and Music in Tlokweng, Botswana, by Jürgen Schöpf, Intercultural Music Studies 13, edited by Max Peter Baumann, Institute for Music Research, Julius- Maximilian University of Würzburg, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, Berlin 2008, 279 pp., 108 pp. of music transcriptions, 5 photographs and 13-track DVD, 9783-86135-645-5.
Focus: Music of South Africa, by Carol A. Muller, 2nd ed., Routledge, New York 2008 (1st ed. 2004), Focus on World Music Series, edited by Michael B. Bakan, 338 pp., 56 photographs, with audio CD.
Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times, Marissa J. Moorman, Ohio University Press, 2008, 320 pp., CD, Paperback: 978-0-8214-1824-6.
From "Noma Kumnyama" to "Pata Pata": a history
Carrying spirit in song: music and the making of ancestors at Zezuru kurova guva ceremonies
Making violence ordinary: radio, music and the Rwandan genocide
On the musical patterning of sculpted words: exploring the relationship between melody and metre in a Somali poetic form
African Music, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2009)
From the Editor
Simultaneous multidimensionality in African music: musical cubism
Drumming among the Akan and Anlo Ewe of Ghana: an introduction
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TRACKLIST Volume 8 number 4, 2010
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Sounds of Muziki wa Injili: Temporal and Spatial Aesthetics of Contemporary - Church Music in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Imani Sanga. 2010. Saarbrucken, Germany: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing. 231 pp. photos, transcriptions, ISBN 978-3-8383-6325-7.
East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization. Mwenda Ntarangwi. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2009. 158 pp. ISBN: 978-0-252-076534 pb; 978-0-252-03457-2 hb.
MASTERS OF THE BALAFON, 2001, 2002. by Hugo Zemp. Colour, DVD Series. Produced by Selenium Films, distributed by Educational Resources (www.der.org).
NEWS FROM ILAM
Central African Guitar Song Composers, the Second and Third Generation. Field recordings 1962-2009. Gerhard Kubik and associates. Department of Musicology, University of Vienna, Vienna Series in Ethnomusicology 3, 2009. 49 pp. CD 25 tracks, booklet, photographs.
Ancient Text Messages of the Yorùbá Bà tá Drum Cracking the Code. Amanda Villepastour. 2010. Farnham: Ashgate, SOAS Musicology Series. 173 pp. photos, transcriptions, CD. ISBN 978-0-7546-6753-7 hb, ISBN 0754667537 pb.
Memory, Music and Religion: Morocco's Mystical Chanters. Earl H. Waugh. 2005. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press:. xix, 260 pp. illustrations, musical examples, glossary, index. ISBN-10 1570035679. ISBN-13 9781570035678.
Making the Changes: Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage. Michael Titlestad. 2004. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press. 275 pp. Paperback: ISBN-10: 186888-2918.
The Lala kalimba: the correlation between instrument and style.
Crossing diaspora's borders: musical roots experiences and the Euro-American presence in Afro-Cuban religious music.
Life is short, art and scholarship are long: a tribute in memory of Professor Willie Oscar Anku.
Keeping it real: amaXhosa iimbongi making mimesis do its thing in the hip-hop and rap music of the Eastern Cape
The eroticization of bikutsi: reclaiming female space through popular music and media.
Parading respectability: the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa and the constitution of subjectivity.
African Music, Vol. 8, No. 4 (2010)
From the Editor
Talking balafons
Adhiambo Nyar Kobura
Novazimtsholo: umrhubhe whistling song
Chabana sa khomo
Ni Wakati
Binadamu
Nomkangaye: umrhubhe whistling duet
Nokhaz' intshonga: umrhubhe whistling song
USitolotolo: umrhubhe whistling song
UTsiki: umrhubhe whistling song
Irobhane: umrhubhe whistling song
Mtsitso wogwitisa "Zaripeni wangu”
Mzeno "Political” (Webster)
Chibhudhu
Mtsitso
Mtsitso
On The Rumba River. 2008. By Jacques Sarasin. 82 minutes, colour, DVD. Distributed by First Run Features.
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Sukuma labor songs from western Tanzania: "we never sleep, we dream of farming". Frank Gunderson. 2010. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 535 pp.
VoxLox Media. http://www.voxlox.net. Steven Feld.
The King of History: Classic 1970s Beats from Kenya. 2010. D.O. Misiani and Shirati Jazz. Stern's Music STCD3051. One compact disc. Booklet (16 pp.) World Defeats the Grandfathers: Swinging Swahili Rumba 1982-1986. 2010. Issa Juma and Super Wanyika Stars. Stern's Music STCD3050. One compact disc. Booklet (16 pp.)
Fiddling In West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagamba Culture.Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje. 2008. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 352 pp.
Theory of African Music Volumes I and II. Gerhard Kubik. 2010. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Vol I, 464 pp., Vol II, 359 pp.
Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa and Music in the Global Marketplace. Deborah Kapchan, Wesleyan University Press. Middletown, CT. 2007, 325 pages
West African women in music: an analysis of scholarship Women's participation in music in west Africa: a reflection on filedwork, self and understanding
'Doing it with style': an ethnopoetics study of improvisation and variation in Southern Ewe drum language conversations
Sounds of development? race, authenticity, and tradition among Dagara female musicians in Northwestern Ghana
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Ethnomusicology in East Africa. Perspectives from Uganda and Beyond. Selected papers from the 1st International Symposium on Ethnomusicology, Makerere University, Kampala, 2009. S. Nannyonga-Tamusuza and T. Solomon (eds.). 2012. Kampala: Fountain Publishers. 255pp.
Readings in Ethnomusicology. Two collections of papers presented at Ethnomusicology Symposia 2010 and 2011. Mitchel Strumpf and Imani Sanga (eds.). University of Dar es Salaam, Dept. of Fine and Performing Arts. 153pp.; 193pp.
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Live From Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania's Music Economy. Alex Perullo. 2011. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 459 pp.
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana. Steven Feld. 2012. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 328 pp.
AIDS, Politics and Music in South Africa. Fraser G. McNeill. 2011. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 278 pp.
Music Notation: A South African Guide. Christine Lucia. 2011. Pretoria: UNISA Press. 318 pp.
Umm Kulthum: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967-2007. Laura Lohman. 2010. Middle Town, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 229 pp.
Sounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History. 2011. Victor Grauer. Selfpublished via CreateSpace. Illustrations at http://soundingthedepths.blogspot.com/. 294pp.
The trans-atlantic journey of Gumbé: where and why has it survived?
Performing advocacy: women's music and dance in Dagbon, northern Ghana
Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz. Carol Ann Muller and Sathima Bea Benjamin. 2011. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 348 pp.
Cultural Globalization and Music. African Artists in Transnational Networks. Nadia Kiwan and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof. 2011. Palgrave Macmillan. 272 pp.
A modern tradition: the social history of the Zimbabwean Marimba
Playing techniques of the nnanga of Buganda
Travel on a song-the roots of Zanzibar taarab
Kusamira: singing rituals of wellness in southern Uganda
African Music, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2012)
Editorial
A woman can sing and dance but cannot dance with high leaps: musical performance of the Haya of Bukoba, Tanzania
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Music for the unseen: interaction between two realms during a Gnawa lila
Sounding the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa. Denis-Constant Martin. 2013. Somerset West, South Africa: African Minds. 444pp.
Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music. Jesse Weaver Shipley. 2013. London and Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 329pp.
The Dance of Politics: Gender, Performance, and Democratization in Malawi. Lisa Gilman. 2009. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 252 pp.
Hip hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World. Eric Charry, ed. 2012. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 390 pp.
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Ethnic and regional identities in Nigerian popular music: a special focus on the Edo
"Cuban music is African music": negotiating Africa and the African diaspora on the world music stage
Kavango music
The singer Anne-Marie Nzié and the song "liberté": on popular music and the poscolonial state in Cameroon
Hit songs and the dynamics of postcolonial Zimbabwe: a study in popular music trends, 1980-2009
African Music, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2013)
Editorial
Call to the hunt: the one-note xylophone of the DRC
Predicted mbira found
Transcribing the Venda tshikona reedpipe dance
Kwe Eber Budho,
Sabina Ya Neli
Ochot Ma Lolwe
Ochot Ma Lolwe
Robinson Olago
Yawuoyi Moa Nairobi
Sabina Ogola
Chief Gideon Magak
Piny ka Piny
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East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization. Mwenda Ntarangwi. 2009. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. appendix, glossary, index, 176 pp.
Nigerian Highlife Music. Austin 'Maro Emielu. 2013. Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, index, 252 pp.
Songs of the Dinka of South Sudan. 2012. Recorded by Elizabeth Achol Ajuet Deng, Simon Yak Deng Yak and Tatiana Reid. Annotated and produced by Angela Impey. 44 pp. of notes, Dinka song texts with translations into English, 5 colour photographs. 1compact disc, 20 tracks. ; Dance To The Drum Of Our Home: A Book Of Dinka Children's Songs. 2012. Compiled by Peter Malek. Published by the compilers. 40 pp., bw illustrations, CD.
Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana: Culture, Tradition and Sound Barrage. Joseph S. Kaminski. 2012. Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. CD, 37 bw ills., 27 music transcriptions, appendix, index, 226pp.
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Choreographing Cape Town through Goema music and dance
Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa. Percival R. Kirby. 2013. (1st ed. OUP 1934, repr. 1953, 2nd ed. Witwatersrand University Press 1965), 3rd ed. Witwatersrand University Press (title updated from 'native races' ) 159 ills., map, xxxv, 400pp.
A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora. Samuel Charters. 2009. London and Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 59 photos, index, 368pp.
Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song. Jean Ngoya Kidula. 2013. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 17 bw illus., 53 music exs, index, 312pp.
West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities: An Ethnomusicological Perspective. George Worlasi Kwasi Dor. 2014. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 60 bw photographs, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, 304 pp.
Middlebury College 2013-14 John Hamilton Fulton Lecture in the Liberal Arts: a public conversation with Angelique Kidjo
Contesting cultural meaning in a post-apartheid South African HIV/AIDS music event
Music and notions of citizenship in the humanitarian work of two NGOs in Uganda
Continuities and innovation in Luo song style: creating the Benga Beat in Kenya 1960 to 1995
African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2014)
From the editor
Ephraim Amu's "Bonwere Kenteŋwene": a celebration of Ghanaian traditional knowledge, wisdom, and artistry
Dzi dza Watonga
Gdeim Izik
Nank' undalamba (Behold starvation)
Msengu
Ndoda Kuenda Kanyi
Bukatiende (Wake Up, Let's Go)
Magariro (Tradition)
Shumba (The Lion)
Uargueziz
Ukucela intsebenzo (Asking for work)
Umngqungqo, yincwadi (Just those two words)
Narrating names of things
Amadodana siyakuzingela (Hunting Story).
Counting in Xhosa from 1-70.
Sicel' intsikelelo (We ask for work)
Ukucela ingqula (We ask that our voice be heard)
Siti musikana adadeka
Marume ashora mambo
Samandoza-iwe
Baba Imimi Ndafa Musandichema
Ngoma Yarira
RASD
Indjetadinha
Maria Adelaide
Bu Sabura é un Disgraça
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Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century: A Story of Old is Gold' and Flying Spirit. Janet Topp Fargion. 2014. Surrey: Ashgate. 10 bw figures, 1 table, index, 250pp.
Music and Social Change in South Africa: Maskanda Past and Present. Kathryn Olsen. 2014. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 10 tables, 18 figures, index, 222pp.
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Understanding African music -- Listen and learn: music made easy -- For future generations: Hugh Tracey and the International Library of African Music -- Sound of Africa -- Music of Africa -- Historical recordings by Hugh Tracey -- Soul safari series -- The Dhow Countries Music Academy: Zanzibar
TRACKLIST VOLUME 10 NUMBER 2 • 2016
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Marabi Nights: Jazz, 'Race' and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa. Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press. 16 bw images, bibliography, index, CD, 247pp.
Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana. Nate Plageman. 2013. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 30 figures, glossary, discography, bibliography, index, 318 pp.
Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era: The Branded Arena. David G. Pier. 2015. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 8 images, 5 figures, 2 tables, index, 203pp.
Musics of the Free State: Reflections on a Musical Past, Present, and Future. Martina Viljoen, ed. 2015. Zagreb: Croatian Musicological Society. 7 colour photographs, 2 maps, 9 tables, 28 music examples, index, 362pp.
Poetry in Motion: 100 Years of Zanzibar's Nadi Ikhwan Safaa. Directed by Ron Mulvihill. Produced by Kelly Askew and Werner Graebner. DVD. 2016. Distributed by Jahazi Media Gris-Gris Films. Subtitles in Arabic, English, French, Swahili. 71 minutes. Available at www.poetryinmotionfilm.com.
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REASSESSING THE ZIMBABWEAN CHIPENDANI (Article withdrawn)
CHIMURENGA RENAISSANCE: DOUBLE DOUBLENESS IN THE DIASPORIC MUSIC OF TENDAI MARAIRE
NEGOTIATING MUSICAL CULTURES IN COLONIAL HYMNODY: ANALYSING LOCALISED HARMONISATIONS OF WESTERN HYMN TUNES
African Music, Power and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe. Mhoze Chikowero. 2015. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 35 bw illustrations, bibliography, index, 346pp.
PORTRAITS OF SAHARAWI MUSIC: WHEN CULTURAL PRESERVATION MEETS POLITICAL ACTIVISM
PRESERVATION AND REVITALISATION OF THE ENDANGERED GĨKŨYŨ FLUTE
MALE DANCERS OF SABAR-STARS OF A FEMALE TRADITION
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African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2016)
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UMASKANDI IZIBONGO: SEMANTIC, PROSODIC AND MUSICAL DIMENSIONS OF VOICE IN ZULU POPULAR PRAISES
Fishermen's songs
Mama Sejlo singing Wayi jegba (Come and take the golden crown)
J Kunnuji singing Dagbe dagbe (Wonderful and marvellous)
J Kunnuji's composition, Wayi jegba
J Kunnuji's composition, Dagbe dagbe
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TRACKLIST VOLUME 10 NUMBER 3 2017
"Hangriba.” Performed by the Shatta Boys, Cape Coast, Ghana.
The Changing Faces of Aawambo Musical Arts. Minette Mans. 2017. Switzerland: Basel Afrika Bibliographien. 56 bw figures (photographs, sketches), 24 transcriptions, glossary, bibliography, index, 188pp.
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Understanding African music -- Listen and learn: music made easy -- For future generations: Hugh Tracey and the International Library of African Music -- Sound of Africa -- Music of Africa -- Historical recordings by Hugh Tracey -- ILAM and Ubuntu Publishing -- The Dhow Countries Music Academy: Zanzibar
Staging Ghana: Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles. Paul Schauert. 2015. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 29 online media examples at Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series, 15 figures, bibliography, index, 343 pp.
African Drumming: The History and Continuity of African Drumming Traditions
Oliver Mtukudzi Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe. Jennifer W. Kyker. 2016. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 25 images, 3 transcriptions, bibliography, index, 290 pp.
"CREATIVE ETHNOMUSICOLOGY” AND AFRICAN ART MUSIC: A CLOSE MUSICAL READING OF WOOD AND CLAY, KUNDI DREAMS AND UMRHUBHE GEESTE BY ANTHONY CAPLAN
Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa. Gavin Steingo. 2016. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 23 bw figures (maps, transcriptions and photos), 2 tables, bibliography, filmography, index, 327pp.
GUIDED SYNCRETISM: REPACKAGING BADAGRY-OGU MUSIC IN THE CONTEXT OF LAGOS' POSTCOLONIAL MODERNITY
THE BUZZ AESTHETIC AND MANDE MUSIC: ACOUSTIC MASKS AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF ENCHANTMENT
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: INDIGENOUS AFRICAN MUSIC IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSIC CURRICULUM
'YET NONE WITH TRUER FERVOUR SING': CORONATION SONG AND THE (DE)COLONIZATION OF AFRICAN CHORAL COMPOSITION
APPROACHES TO THE ADAPTATION OF SHONA NGOMA STYLES IN ZIMBABWEAN POPULAR MUSIC
METER, FEEL, AND PHRASING IN WEST AFRICAN BELL PATTERNS: THE EXAMPLE OF ASANTE KETE FROM GHANA
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IN A WORLD OF THEIR OWN: MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN THE FISHING SONGS OF A MIGRANT EWE COMMUNITY IN GHANA
African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music, Vol. 10, No. 3 (2017)
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David F. Garcia, Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins
Pim Higginson, Scoring Race: Jazz, Fiction, and Francophone Africa
Sylvia Bruinders, Parading Respectability: The Cultural and Moral Aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa
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GENDERED SPACE TRANSGRESSORS: STUDY OF TWO YORÙBà FEMALE DÙNDÚN DRUMMERS
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Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Story Telling in Buganda. Damascus Kafumbe, 2018. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 31 illustrations, 23 musical examples, bibliography, index. 151 pp.
Lagos Soundscapes. Emeka Ogboh, 2019. Berlin, Germany: Kerber. 164 colour and 85 b/w illustrations, bibliography, index, list of works, 216 pp.
African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe. Mhoze Chikowero, 2015. Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press. 35 illustrations b & w, bibliography, index, 346 pp.
Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Xavier Livorman, 2020. Durham: Duke University Press. 35 illustrations b&w, glossary, bibliography, index, 288pp.
Hip Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers. Msia Kibona Clark, 2018. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 25 illustrations b&w, bibliography, index, 266 pp.
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