African perspectives : pre-colonial history, anthropology, and ethnomusicology / Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann, Michael Weber (eds.).

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Language
English
Published/​Created
Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2008.
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370 p. : ill. (1 col.), music ; 23 cm. + 1 DVD-ROM (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

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      Notes
      • Essays from a symposium in honor of Gerhard Kubik, held in December 2004 at the University of Vienna.
      • Accompanying DVD-ROM contains photographs, videorecordings, and audio recordings to illustrate the essays.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references.
      Contents
      • Akaning'a and his travels / Moya Aliya Malamusi (Chileka)
      • Smallpox in history : a contribution to pre-colonial history in Africa / Donald Hopkins (Chicago)
      • Music, body, movement : an "African" perspective applied to the analysis of South Italian dances / Giorgio Adamo (Rome)
      • Autobiographical note by a court musician / Albert Ssempeke (Kampala)
      • Buganda's history according to oral tradition / Sarah Sekintu (Kampala)
      • Zopeka ndi zochitika : fiction and non-fiction / M.M. Malamusi
      • Konkha vya vanda : search for the hidden : Luchazi culture in historical perspective / Kayombo Kachinyeka (Manyinga)
      • Chiyao chieftainship and initiation ceremonies : a field report from Chief Makanjila's village, Lake Malawi / Moses Yotamu (Kabompo)
      • Lomwe initiation masks : description of seven examples from the collection of Dori and Pancho Guedes with an introduction / Pancho Guedes (Lisbon)
      • Musical bows in South-East Africa / M.M. Malamusi
      • Art in music : Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa / William Umbima (Nairobi)
      • The condition of decay in contemporary West European "classical" music / Stanley Glasser (London)
      • Nubian music in the northern Sudan and the southern Egypt : research and recordings from 1973 and 2003 / Artur Simon (Berlin)
      • Patterns of reinterpretation in African-American music of the United States / David Evans (Memphis)
      • African, autobiographical, and earlier operatic elements in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha / Theodore Albrecht (Kent)
      • Inscribing history and culture in the Woi epic : migration of the Kpelle people, performance, and the Kingdom of Mali / Ruth M. Stone (Bloomington)
      • Asafo and fontomfrom as indices of social sentiments among the Fante (Ghana) / Kenichi Tsukada (Hiroshima)
      • Pre-colonial colonialism in Central and Southern Africa / George T. Nurse (London)
      • Aspects of life among the Shawasha of pre-Rhodesian days : a selection from a manuscript by Simon Tawoneyi / George Fortune (Mynydd isa)
      • African music history until the start of Independence and the history of some other world music traditions : a design for a course of study of African history, anthropology, and ethnomusicology / Mitchel Strumpf (Dar es Salaam)
      ISBN
      • 9783631565032 (pbk.)
      • 3631565038 (pbk.)
      OCLC
      276331904
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