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A Century of Change in the Folk Music of an African Tribe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Klaus Wachsmann
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Journal of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , 1958 , pp. 52 - 56
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Copyright © International Council for Traditional Music 1958

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1. This article is based on two broadcast talks which were given for the BBC Third Programme in September, 1956. The African tribe concerned are the Baganda, who live in the centre of the Uganda Protectorate.

2. Georg, Schweinfurth: The Heart of Africa, Vol. I, p. 490, London, 1873.Google Scholar

3. The terms “bugle” and “trumpet” are used indiscriminately.

4. Bernhard, Ankermann “Die Afrikanischen Musikinstrumente” in Ethnologisches Notizblatt, III (1901), Volkerkundemuseum, Berlin.Google Scholar

5. K. M., Trowell and K. P., Wachsmann: Tribal Crafts of Uganda, pp. 349 ff. Oxford University Press, 1953.Google Scholar

6. Muganda = singular, Baganda = plural, for inhabitants of Buganda.

7. Basoga = plural for inhabitants of Busoga, the eastern neighbours of the Baganda, east of the Nile.