The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961
Scholars, Singers, Missionaries
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Introduction
Part I: The Search for the Origins of Music: Comparative Musicology
1. Comparative Musicology and Comparative Linguistics
2. Erich Moritz von Hornbostel
3. Marius Schneider
4. Georg Schünemann
5. Two Crossover Musicologists: Jacques Handschin and Manfred Bukofzer
6. Nicholas G. J. Ballanta
Part II: Bringing Medieval Music to Life: Jugendmusik- and Singbewegung
7. The First Performances of Medieval Music and the Historians Behind Them
8. The Jugendmusik- and Singbewegung: Ideology, Leaders, and Publishers
Part III: Music in the German Mission Stations in East Africa: Some Case Studies
9. A History of the Missions
10. The Moravians
11. The Leipzig Mission
12. The Bethel Mission
13. The Catholic Missionsbenediktiner St. Ottilien
Conclusions
Cast of Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
History: African History | European History
Music: Ethnomusicology | General Music
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