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Characteristics of African Music*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Alan P. Merriam
Alan P. Merriam*
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North-western University, Evanston, Ill., U.S.A.
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Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference. Liège, Belgium
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Journal of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 11 , 1959 , pp. 13 - 19
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Copyright © International Council for Traditional Music 1959

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1. Varley, Douglas H., African Native Music: An annotated Bibliography (London: Royal Empire Society Bibliographies, No. 8, 1936)Google Scholar; Merriam, Alan P., “An Annotated Bibliography of African and African-Derived Music since 1936,” Africa, XXI (Oct., 1951), 319–329.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2. See, for example, the characteristics of pygmy music. Yvette Grimaud, avec la collaboration de Rouget, Gilbert, Notes sur la Musique des Bochiman Comparée à celle des Pygmées Babinga (Harvard University: Peabody Museum, and Musee de l'Homme: Departement d'Ethnomusicologie, notes for 12 in. LP LD9, 1957), pp. 5–7 Google Scholar; Merriam, Alan P., Africa South of the Sahara (New York: Folkways Records and Service Corp., 1957, album notes for EFL album FE503), pp. 8-10.Google Scholar

3. Ward, W. E., “Music in the Gold Coast,” Gold Coast Review, III (July-Dec, 1927), p. 214.Google Scholar

4. Ibid., p. 217.

5. von Hornbostel, Erich M., “African Negro Music,” Africa, I (Jan., 1928), p. 26 (in reprint).Google Scholar

6. Loc. cit.

7. Blacking, John, “Some Notes on a Theory of African Rhythm Advanced by Erich M. von Hornbostel,” African Music, I (1955), pp. 12–20.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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9. Ibid., pp. 211-212.

10. Jones, A. M., “African Rhythm,” Africa, XXIV (Jan., 1954), P. 27.Google Scholar

11. Ibid., p. 28.

12. Ibid., p. 39.

13. Loc. cit.

14. Ibid., p. 40.

15. Ibid., p. 39.

16. Ibid., p. 44.

17. Wachsmann, Klaus, “A Century of Change in the Folk Music of an African Tribe,” Journal of the International Folk Music Council, X (1958), pp. 53–54.Google Scholar

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21. Ibid., p. 213.

22. Loc. cit.

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30. See, for example, Merriam, Alan P., Ekonda: Tribal Music of the Belgian Congo (New York: Riverside Records, 12 in. LP RLP4006, Sept., 1956), cover notes.Google Scholar

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32. Phillips, Ekundayo, Yoruba Music (Johannesburg: African Music Society, 1953), passim. Google Scholar

33. Jones, , African Music …, op. cit., p. 10.Google Scholar

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36. Tracey, Hugh, Chopi Musicians: Their Music, Poetry and Instruments (London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1948), pp. 127–128.Google Scholar

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38. Waterman, , op. cit., p. 207.Google Scholar

39. Blacking, op. cit., passim.

40. Blacking, personal communication.

41. Mieczyslaw Kolinski, “Suriname Music,” in Melville J., and Herskovits, Frances S., Suriname Folklore (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936), pp. 498–501.Google Scholar