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Title, frequency, and publisher changes; cessations.(NEW PERIODICALS)(List)
African Music, published by the International Library of African Music (ILAM), Rhodes University, South Africa, is back in print with volume 8, number 1, 2007. The journal has been on hiatus since volume 7, number 4 (1999). The journal is published annually and includes a full length compact disc compilation of field recordings.
African Music was established by ILAM's founder Hugh Tracey in 1954 as a way to disseminate African music scholarship. It is now being re-launched as a peer-reviewed publication, but its purpose remains the same. Volume 8, number 1 (2007) is only available in print form but the journal has plans to go online. Subscription requests can be made via e-mail: ilamsales@ru.ac.za, by FAX: 27-(0) 46-622-4411, or by regular mail to: Editor, African Music, ILAM, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.
Future Music Magazine (ISSN 1553-6777) published by Future Network, has ceased with the January 2007 issue. The magazine, which covered the recording industry and electronic instruments, had a short tenure; its first volume was May/June 2005.
The journal Musiktheorie (ISSN 0177-4182), published by Laaber-Verlag, has expanded its title to Musiktheorie: Zeitschrift fur Musikwissenschaft beginning with volume 21, number 1 (2006). The new subtitle was added to underline that music theory is "a broadly formulated, historically oriented music science" (author's translation). In clarifying its focus, the journal hopes to mediate between musical phenomena and their function ...
- African Music: A Pan-African Annotated Bibliography.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Research in African Literatures Avorgbedor, Daniel December 22, 1999 700+ words
African Music: A Pan-African Annotated Bibliography...Three important reference works on African music have appeared between 1988 and 1992...The Da Capo Guide to Contemporary African Music (New York: Da Capo; an update was...
- Ethnomusicology, the music Canon, and African music: positions, tensions, and...
- Magazine article from: Africa Today Kidula, Jean Ngoya March 22, 2006 700+ words
African music entered serious scholarship through...ethnomusicology. While scholars in African music have contributed significantly to...portrayed more as artifact than art, and African music scholars have been directed by European...
- The World of African Music: Stern's Guide to Contemporary African Music, vol. 2.
- Magazine article from: Research in African Literatures Avorgbedor, Daniel K. June 22, 1994 700+ words
...the major record labels promoting African music are located outside Africa. Ronnie Graham's The World of African Music is the second bio-discography...Stem's Guide to Contemporary African Music, devoted to popular music in Africa...
- Contemporary African Music in World Perspectives.
- Magazine article from: Research in African Literatures Avorgbedor, Daniel K. September 22, 1996 700+ words
Studies on African music(s) in the past twenty years have made substantial...research formulations (for reviews of research in African music see, for example, Nketia, "African Music and Western Praxis: A Review of Western Perspectives...
- Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions.(African...
- Magazine article from: Notes Solis, Gabriel September 1, 2004 700+ words
Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries...be required reading not only for African music specialists, but ethnomusicologists...the issues involved in studying African music, his cogent explanation of musical...
- African Music as Text.(music and language)
- Magazine article from: Research in African Literatures Agawu, Kofi June 22, 2001 700+ words
...cultural practices, the varieties of African music known to us today may be designated...music in motion elicits. Traditional African music is not normally described as contemplative...sometimes generalized to encompass all African music--must always take into account the...
- The Landscape of African Music.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Research in African Literatures Irele, F. Abiola June 22, 2001 700+ words
For too long, the field of African music has been occupied and even dominated...ethnomusicology to an understanding of African music in this way is, however, not...to operate a constriction of African music in such a way that this music...
- Oko Drammeh Takes African Music to China.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 31, 2003 700+ words
...occupy this page next week. Oko's African Music Festival will now notate the entire...ethnomusicologist and founder of the African Music Festival, one of the oldest and largest...also has produced documentaries on African music and culture for BBC, written articles...
- African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art, and...
- Magazine article from: Notes Waterman, Christopher A. September 1, 1994 700+ words
...Although his bibliographic guide to African music is largely unannotated, it is remarkably...journalistic writing on popular music. African Music contains 5,105 citations, organized...and Europe which stock recordings of African music. Four indexes--organized by ethnic...
- Negotiating the music-theory/African-music nexus: a political critique of...
- Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music Scherzinger, Martin January 1, 2001 700+ words
...high methodological premium placed on African music's cultural contexts entails a careful...inadvertent distortions that can result when African music has imposed on it Western concepts...Chernoff asserts that a performance of African music "cannot be ju dged by...an abstracted...
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