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245 00 a| Sounding forms :b| African musical instruments /c| edited by Marie-Thérèse Brincard ; text by Arthur Bourgeois [and others].;

300 a| 205 pages :b| illustrations (some color), map ;c| 31 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Exhibition tour: National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., April 26-June 18, 1989; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, July 16-September 10, 1989; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 7-December 3, 1989; Musée des arts africains et océaniens, Paris, France, January 25-March 20, 1990.;

500 a| Includes index.;

504 a| Bibliography: pages 198-203.;

520 a| The present exhibition, whose success is due to the diligence and sustained efforts of the American Federation of Arts, is one of a series of continual Franco-American cultural exchanges. Founded on a long tradition, these exchanges have been able to combine the exceptional with the revelation of remove and mysterious worlds, here in the realm of African musical instruments, which lies at the boundary between the sacred and profane, a world largely unknown, but rich and teeming in aesthetic forms and in the range of its sonorities, and which every amateur or connoisseur is invited to discover with interest and amazement.;

650 0 a| Musical instrumentsz| Africav| Exhibitions.=| ^A17094;

650 0 a| Musical instruments in artv| Exhibitions.=| ^A1005851;

700 1 a| Brincard, Marie-Thérèse,e| editor.=| ^A283193;

700 1 a| Bourgeois, Arthur P.q| (Arthur Paul),d| 1940-=| ^A283194;

710 2 a| American Federation of Arts.=| ^A62502;

710 2 a| National Museum of African Art (U.S.)=| ^A217978;

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Sounding forms : African musical instruments / edited by Marie-Thérèse Brincard ; text by Arthur Bourgeois [and others].

Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : American Federation of Arts, ©1989.
Description	205 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 31 cm
Subjects	Musical instruments--Africa. --Exhibitions. Musical instruments in art--Exhibitions.

Other author/creator	Brincard, Marie-Thérèse, editor.
Other author/creator	Bourgeois, Arthur P. (Arthur Paul), 1940-
Other author/creator	American Federation of Arts.
Other author/creator	National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Contents	Sounding forms / Marie-Thérèse Brincard -- The aesthetic dimensions of African musical instruments / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- African musical instruments and their decoration / Bertil Söderberg -- Body and voice: Kongo figurative musical instruments / Robert Farris Thompson -- Anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, and abstraction in the musical instruments of Central Africa / Jean-Sèbastien Laurenty -- African harps / Sue Carole DeVale -- Slit gongs in the Cameroon grassfields / Christraud M. Geary -- African mbira as musical icons / Cynthia E. Schmidt -- Master drums from Akan popular bands / Doran H. Ross -- A Nuna flute / Christopher D. Roy.
Abstract	The present exhibition, whose success is due to the diligence and sustained efforts of the American Federation of Arts, is one of a series of continual Franco-American cultural exchanges. Founded on a long tradition, these exchanges have been able to combine the exceptional with the revelation of remove and mysterious worlds, here in the realm of African musical instruments, which lies at the boundary between the sacred and profane, a world largely unknown, but rich and teeming in aesthetic forms and in the range of its sonorities, and which every amateur or connoisseur is invited to discover with interest and amazement.
General note	Exhibition tour: National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., April 26-June 18, 1989; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, July 16-September 10, 1989; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 7-December 3, 1989; Musée des arts africains et océaniens, Paris, France, January 25-March 20, 1990.
General note	Includes index.
Bibliography note	Bibliography: pages 198-203.
LCCN	88038569
ISBN	0917418891 :

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