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“AFRICAN SCULPTURE”, by William Fagg and Margaret Plass. 160 pp., fully illustrated with photographs. Studio Vista. London. 18/-.
“SINCE SINGING IS SO GOOD A THING”. Handbook for Music Teachers and Choir Masters. by GRAHAM HYSLOP. Oxford University Press, Nairobi, 1964. pp. 127.
MISSA SHONA I. — 12" LP. — by STEPHEN M. PONDE. Link Records in association with Mambo Press Rhodesia
WHAT! No Spinach?
With Ukulele arrangement. Contains advertisements and/or short musical examples of pieces being sold by publisher.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-vp/7006/thumbnail.jp
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Movência e imagologia : percursos macaenses de Ondina Braga e das suas personagen
BLACK MUSIC OF TWO WORLDS by John Storm Roberts. Praeger, New York, 1972. pp. 286, photographs
The lost valley: a feature programme for broadcasting
Based upon the story of that part of the great Zambezi Valley in Southern Africa which has recently been submerged beneath the waters of the Kariba Dam
A case for the name Mbira
It is perhaps strange that one of Africa’s most important small musical instruments should suffer from an incorrect naming at the hands of many ethnomusicologists and museum keepers, those who should be most concerned to give it its rightful name and place in the catalogue of this continent’s instruments. The instrument is popularly known under several rather nebulous names such as ‘Kaffir Piano’, ‘Hand Piano’, ‘Thumb Piano’ and ‘Pianino’, by those whose major criterion is the modern pianoforte; and ‘Sansa’ by students who have taken their cue unquestioningly from the printed pages of earlier writers. It is doubly strange that students who would otherwise shrink from misnomers should continue to use the term ‘sansa’ when by all accounts no indigenous African musician uses this name for his instrument (unless he has learnt it from the same literary sources). The origin of this error appears to be with David Livingstone
Osborn Awards for the best recordings of African music for the year 1953
The African Music Society has pleasure in announcing the Osborn Awards for 1953. 275 entries were received from all over Africa for the consideration of the Judges, and eleven Awards of Seven Guineas each were recommended and nine Highly Commended of Two Guineas each
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