Author:
Wachsmann, Klaus, 1907- comp.
Imprint:Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1971.
Descriptionxi, 268 p. : maps, music, plates ; 24 cm.
Note: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. - 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. - The interrelation of African and Arab music: some preliminary considerations / Lois Ann Anderson. - Islamic musical culture among the Yoruba: a preliminary survey / Ain Euba. - 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: a historian's view of the African picture / John D. Fage.
