Essays from a symposium in honor of Gerhard Kubik, held in December 2004 at the University of Vienna.

Includes bibliographical references.

Akaning'a and his travels / Moya Aliya Malamusi (Chileka) -- S mallpox in history : a contribution to pre-colonial history in Africa / Donald Hopkins (Chicago) -- Music, body, movement : an "African" perspective applied to the analysis of South Italian dances / Giorg io Adamo (Rome) -- Autobiographical note by a court musician / Al bert Ssempeke (Kampala) -- Buganda's history according to oral tradi tion / Sarah Sekintu (Kampala) -- Zopeka ndi zochitika : fiction and non-fiction / M.M. Malamusi -- Konkha vya vanda : search for the hidden : Luchazi culture in historical perspective / Kayombo Kac hinyeka (Manyinga) -- Chiyao chieftainship and initiation ceremonies : a field report from Chief Makanjila's village, Lake Malawi / Mose s Yotamu (Kabompo) -- Lomwe initiation masks : description of seven examples from the collection of Dori and Pancho Guedes with an introduc tion / Pancho Guedes (Lisbon) -- Musical bows in South-East Afric a / M.M. Malamusi -- Art in music : Eastern, Central, and Souther n Africa / William Umbima (Nairobi) -- The condition of decay in contemporary West European "classical" music / Stanley Glasser (Lond on) -- Nubian music in the northern Sudan and the southern Egypt : r esearch and recordings from 1973 and 2003 / Artur Simon (Berlin) -- Patterns of reinterpretation in African-American music of the Unite d States / David Evans (Memphis) -- African, autobiographical, an d earlier operatic elements in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha / Theodore Albrecht (Kent) -- Inscribing history and culture in the Woi epic : migration of the Kpelle people, performance, and the Kingdom of Mali / Ruth M. Stone (Bloomington) -- Asafo and fontomfrom as indices o f social sentiments among the Fante (Ghana) / Kenichi Tsukada (Hiros hima) -- Pre-colonial colonialism in Central and Southern Africa / George T. Nurse (London) -- Aspects of life among the Shawasha o f pre-Rhodesian days : a selection from a manuscript by Simon Tawoneyi / George Fortune (Mynydd isa) -- African music history until the start of Independence and the history of some other world music traditi ons : a design for a course of study of African history, anthropology, and ethnomusicology / Mitchel Strumpf (Dar es Salaam)