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John Gray. African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular Art, and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa. African Special Bibliographical Series, no. 14. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. $55.00. Cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

David Westley
David Westley*
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Boston University, Boston Massachusetts
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African Studies Review , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , April 1993 , pp. 152 - 155
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1993

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References

Notes

1. Thieme, Darius L., African Music: A Briefly Annotated Bibliography (Washington, DC: U.S. Library of Congress Music Division, 1967. Reprint, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978)Google Scholar.

2. Gaskin, L. G. P., A Select Bibliography of Music in Africa (London: International African Institute, 1965)Google Scholar.

3. Graham, Ronnie, Stern's Guide to Contemporary African Music (London: Zwan ‘Off the Record” Press, 1988)Google Scholar.

4. Hornbostel, Erich und Sachs, Curt, Systematik der Musikinstrumente (Berlin: Behrend, 1914)Google Scholar. English version: “Classification of Musical Instruments,” Galpin Society Journal 14 (1961): 3–29 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5. Ben-Amos, Dan, Sweet Words: Storytelling Events in Benin (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1975)Google Scholar.

6. Since this review was written another bibliography, despite my predictions, has appeared on the scene: Carol-Lems-Dworkin, , African Music: A Pan-African Annotated Bibliography (Oxford: Hans Zell, 1991)Google Scholar.