The Musical Bow in Southern Africa

Charles M. Camp · Bruno Nettl

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This paper is intended to give the distribution of various types of musical bows in Africa, south of 10° south, and a description of their musical styles !. The material for the distribution has been assembled from published sources as well as field notes. A glossary of native terms for musical bow types is included as an appendix, as is a map indicating the locations of the various types. The musical bow has a wide and intensive distribution in the area and is found in more varieties here than elsewhere in the world. Because of

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1915The Life of a South African Tribe 1905The Native Races of South Africa 1967The Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa 1902The Uganda protectorate 1854History of Musical Instruments 1908Aus Namaland und Kalahari 1934The Ovimbundu of Angola 1931The Lambas of Northern Rhodesia

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