Sounding forms
Subtitle: African musical instruments
By: edited by Marie-Thérèse Brincard ; text by Arthur P. Bourgeois ... [et al.].
Contributors: Brincard, Marie-Thérèse.; Bourgeois, Arthur P. 1940-; American Federation of Arts.; National Museum of African Art (U.S.); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.; Museé national des arts africains et oceániens.
Publisher: American Federation of Arts
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780917418891
Subjects: Musical instruments -- Africa -- Exhibitions; Musical instruments in art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sounding forms / Marie-Thérèse Brincard; title: The aesthetic dimensions of African musical instruments / J.H. Kwabena Nketia; title: African musical instruments and their decoration / Bertil Söderberg; title: Body and voice : Kongo figurative musical instruments / Robert Farris Thompson; title: Anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, and abstraction in the musical instruments of Central Africa / Jean-Sèbastien Laurenty; title: African harps : construction, decoration, and sound / Sue Carole DeVale; title: Slit gongs in the Cameroon grassfields : sights and sounds of beauty and power / Christraud M. Geary; title: African mbira as musical icons / Cynthia E. Schmidt; title: Master drums from Akan popular bands / Doran H. Ross; title: A Nuna flute : attribution and meaning / Christopher D. Roy.