African perspectives: pre-colonial history, anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann ; Michael Weber (eds.) / Vergleichende Musikwissenschaft ; Bd. 5

Tadelloses Exemplar. - Contents -- Preface 11 -- MOYA ALIYA MALAMUSI, Chileka -- Akaning'a and his travels 19 -- D O N A L D H O P K I N S , Chicago -- Smallpox in history. A contribution to pre-colonial history in Africa 43 -- G I O R G I O A D A M O , Rome -- Music � body � movement. An "African" perspective applied to -- the analysis of South Italian dances 49 -- ALBERT SSEMPEKE (t), Kampala -- Autobiographical note by a court musician 73 -- SARAH SEKINTU, Kampala -- Buganda's history according to oral tradition 77 -- MALIYA MOYA MALAMUSI, Chileka -- Zopeka ndi zochitika - Fiction and non-fiction 93 -- KAYOMBO KACHINYEKA, Manyinga -- Konkha vya vanda - Search for the Hidden. Luchazi culture -- in historical perspective 103 -- MOSES YOTAMU, Kabompo -- Chiyao Chieftainship and Initiation Ceremonies. A field report -- from Chief Makanjila's village, Lake Malawi 121 -- PANCHO GUEDES, Lisbon -- Lomwe initiation masks. Description of seven examples from -- the collection of Dori and Pancho Guedes with an introduction 153 -- MOYAALIYA MALAMUSI, Chileka -- Musical bows in South-East Africa 163 -- WILLIAM UMBIMAOJ-), Nairobi -- Art in music: Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa 179 -- STANLEY GLASSER, London -- The condition of decay in contemporary -- West European "classical" music 187 -- ARTUR SIMON, Berlin -- Nubian music in the Northern Sudan and the Southern Egypt. -- Research and recordings from 1973 and 2003 195 -- DAVID EVANS, Memphis -- Patterns of reinterpretation in African-American music -- of the United States 207 -- THEODORE ALBRECHT, Kent -- African, autobiographical, and earlier operatic elements -- in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha 215 -- RUTH M. STONE, Bloomington -- Inscribing history and culture in the Woi epic. Migration of -- the Kpelle people, Performance, and the Kingdom of Mali 243 -- KENICHI TSUKADA, Hiroshima -- Asafo and fyntymfrom as indices of social sentiments -- among the Fante (Ghana) 251 -- GEORGE T. NURSE, London -- Pre-colonial colonialism in Central and Southern Africa 273 ISBN 9783631565032