African perspectives
Subtitle: pre-colonial history, anthropology, and ethnomusicology
By: Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann, Michael Weber (eds.).
Contributors: Allgayer-Kaufmann, Regine.; Weber, Michael, 1960-; Kubik, Gerhard, 1934-
Series: Vergleichende Musikwissenschaft -- v. 5; Vergleichende Musikwissenschaft -- Bd. 5.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9783631565032
Subjects: Music -- Africa -- Congresses; Anthropology -- Africa -- Congresses; Ethnomusicology -- Africa -- Congresses; Musikethnologie -- Afrika -- Kongress -- Wien <2004>; Afrika -- Musikethnologie -- Kongress -- Wien <2004>
Genres: Congresses; Kongress
Notes: Essays from a symposium in honor of Gerhard Kubik, held in December 2004 at the University of Vienna.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Akaning'a and his travels  -- Moya Aliya Malamusi (Chileka); title: Smallpox in history : a contribution to pre-colonial history in Africa  -- Donald Hopkins (Chicago); title: Music, body, movement : an "African" perspective applied to the analysis of South Italian dances  -- Giorgio Adamo (Rome); title: Autobiographical note by a court musician  -- Albert Ssempeke (Kampala); title: Buganda's history according to oral tradition  -- Sarah Sekintu (Kampala); title: Zopeka ndi zochitika : fiction and non-fiction  -- M.M. Malamusi; title: Konkha vya vanda : search for the hidden : Luchazi culture in historical perspective  -- Kayombo Kachinyeka (Manyinga); title: Chiyao chieftainship and initiation ceremonies : a field report from Chief Makanjila's village, Lake Malawi  -- Moses Yotamu (Kabompo); title: Lomwe initiation masks : description of seven examples from the collection of Dori and Pancho Guedes with an introduction  -- Pancho Guedes (Lisbon); title: Musical bows in South-East Africa  -- M.M. Malamusi; title: Art in music : Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa  -- William Umbima (Nairobi); title: The condition of decay in contemporary West European "classical" music  -- Stanley Glasser (London); title: Nubian music in the northern Sudan and the southern Egypt : research and recordings from 1973 and 2003  -- Artur Simon (Berlin); title: Patterns of reinterpretation in African-American music of the United States  -- David Evans (Memphis); title: African, autobiographical, and earlier operatic elements in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha  -- Theodore Albrecht (Kent); title: Inscribing history and culture in the Woi epic : migration of the Kpelle people, performance, and the Kingdom of Mali  -- Ruth M. Stone (Bloomington); title: Asafo and fontomfrom as indices of social sentiments among the Fante (Ghana)  -- Kenichi Tsukada (Hiroshima); title: Pre-colonial colonialism in Central and Southern Africa  -- George T. Nurse (London); title: Aspects of life among the Shawasha of pre-Rhodesian days : a selection from a manuscript by Simon Tawoneyi  -- George Fortune (Mynydd isa); title: 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)