Essays on music and history of Africa.

List of Illustrations vii Preface ix West Africa 1. History and the Organization of Music in West Africa J. H. KWABENA NKETIA 3 2. Court Songs and Traditional History in the Ancient Kingdoms of Porto-Novo and Abomey GILBERT ROUGET 27 3. Musical Instruments on Benin Plaques PHILIP J. C. DARK and MATTHEW HILL 65 East Africa 4. Africa and Indonesia: An Ancient Colonial Era? A. M. JONES 81 5. Musical Instruments in Kiganda Tradition and Their Place in the East African Scene KLAUS P. WACHSMANN 93 6. A Note on Kushite Contact with the South DAVID M. DIXON 135 Islam and African Music 7. The Interrelation of African and Arab Musics: Some Preliminary Considerations LOIS ANN ANDERSON 143 8. Islamic Musical Culture among the Yoruba: A Preliminary Survey AKIN EUBA 171 Southern Africa 9. Music and the Historical Process in Vendaland JOHN BLACKING 185 10. Stylistic Evidence in Nguni Song DAVID K. RYCROFT 213 11. The Changing Face of African Music South of the Zambezi PERCIVAL R. KIRBY 243 Music and Hístory 12. Music and History: A Historian's View of the African Picture JOHN D. FAGE 257 The Contríbutors 267