附註:Exhibition tour: National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., April 26-June 18, 1989; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, July 16-September 10, 1989; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 7-December 3, 1989; Musee des arts africains et oceaniens, Paris, France, January 25-March 20, 1990.
曹永坤先生(1929-2006)收藏之音樂、藝術、歷史、文學圖書捐贈.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-203).
Includes index.
Sounding forms / Marie-Therese Brincard -- The aesthetic dimensions of African musical instruments / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- African musical instruments and their decoration / Bertil Soderberg -- Body and voice : Kongo figurative musical instruments / Robert Farris Thompson -- Anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, and abstraction in the musical instruments of Central Africa / Jean-Sebastien Laurenty -- African harps : construction, decoration, and sound / Sue Carole DeVale -- Slit gongs in the Cameroon grassfields : sights and sounds of beauty and power / Christraud M. Geary -- African mbira as musical icons / Cynthia E. Schmidt -- Master drums from Akan popular bands / Doran H. Ross -- A Nuna flute : attribution and meaning / Christopher D. Roy.
