Nigerian Highlife Music. Austin 'Maro Emielu. 2013. Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, index, 252 pp.
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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.
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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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New books! International Library of African Music
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Choreographing Cape Town through Goema music and dance
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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.
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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.
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Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song. Jean Ngoya Kidula. 2013. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 17 bw illus., 53 music exs, index, 312pp.
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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.
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Middlebury College 2013-14 John Hamilton Fulton Lecture in the Liberal Arts: a public conversation with Angelique Kidjo
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Contesting cultural meaning in a post-apartheid South African HIV/AIDS music event
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Music and notions of citizenship in the humanitarian work of two NGOs in Uganda
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Continuities and innovation in Luo song style: creating the Benga Beat in Kenya 1960 to 1995
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African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2014)
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From the editor
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Ephraim Amu's "Bonwere Kenteŋwene": a celebration of Ghanaian traditional knowledge, wisdom, and artistry
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Dzi dza Watonga
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Gdeim Izik
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Nank' undalamba (Behold starvation)
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Msengu
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Ndoda Kuenda Kanyi
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Bukatiende (Wake Up, Let's Go)
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