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List of Figures
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Notes on Contributors
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Introduction: Composing the Music of Africa
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Malcolm Floyd |
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Melodic and Rhythmic Aspects of African Music
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Christopher James |
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Part I
The Making of 'Traditional' Musics
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Egypt
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Egyptian Folk Music
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Ghana
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The Roots of Ghanaian Composers
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James Flolu |
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Drumming in Ghana
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Trevor Wiggins |
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The Xylophone Tradition of North-West Ghana
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Trevor Wiggins |
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Uganda
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The Making of Karimojong' Cattle Songs
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Kenneth Gourlay |
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Embaire Xylophone Music of Samusiri Babalanda
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Gerhard Kubik |
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Kenya
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Warrior Composers: Maasai Boys and Men
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Malcolm Floyd |
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New Lyres in Northern Kenya: the Enchamunge of the Samburu and the Kilumba of the Turkana
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Malcolm Floyd |
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Part II
The Changing Faces of Music
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Consumer-led Creation: Taarab Music Composition in Zanzibar
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Janet Topp Fargion |
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Kwela: the Structure and Sound of Pennywhistle Music
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Lara Allen |
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Keeping our Ears to the Ground: Cross-Culturalism and the Composer in South Africa, 'Old' and 'New'
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Hans Roosenschoon |
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Timbila
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Hans Roosenschoon |
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Black - White - Rainbow: a Personal View on what African Music means to the Contemporary Western Composer
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Geoffrey Poole |
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Egyptian Composition in the Twentieth Century
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Adel Kamel |
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Index
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