Essays on music and history in Africa / rdited by Klaus P. Wachsmann.
| Author/creator | Wachsmann, Klaus compiler. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1971. |
| Description | xi, 268 pages : maps, music, plates. ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | West Africa. History and the organization of music in West Africa / J. H. Kwabena Nketia -- Court songs and traditional history in the ancient kingdoms of Porto-Novo and Abomey / Gilbert Rouget -- Musical instruments on Benin plaques / Philip J. C. Dark and Matthew Hill -- East Africa. Africa and Indonesia: an ancient colonial era? / A. M. Jones -- Musical instruments in Kiganda tradition and their place in the East African scene / Klaus P. Wachsmann -- A note on Kushite contact with the South / David M. Dixon -- Islam and African music. The interrelation of African and Arab musics: some preliminary considerations / Lois Ann Anderson -- Islamic musical culture among the Yoruba: a preliminary survey / Akin Euba -- Southern Africa. Music and the historical process in Vendaland / John Blacking -- Stylistic evidence in Nguni song / David K. Rycroft -- The changing face of African music South of the Zambezi / Percival R. Kirby -- Music and history. Music and history: a historian's view of the African picture / John D. Fage. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 76126899 |
| ISBN | 0810103338 |