Research Catalog

  • Yoruba talking instruments. (Audiotape).

    • Audio
    • London, Transcription Feature Service [1962]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio Sc Audio C-21 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Speech surrogates : drum and whistle systems / edited by Thomas A. Sebeok and Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok.

    • Text
    • The Hague : Mouton, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 76-3712 V. 1Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text JFE 76-3712 V. 2Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Our drums and drummers, by J. H. Kwabena Nketia.

    • Text
    • [Accra] Ghana Pub. House, 1968.
    • 1968
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 76-183Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 789-N (Nketia, J. Our drums and drummers)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Ayan: the poetry of the atumpan drums of the Asantehene/compiled by J. H. Kwabena Nketia.

    • Text
    • Legon, Ghana: Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, 1966.
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Ser.-L .A922 v. 1Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Extralinguistic usages of tonality in Efik folklore / Donald C. Simmons.

    • Text
    • University : University of Alabama Press, c1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 80-2504Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • African and Afro-American drums. [Sound recording]

    • Audio
    • Folkways Records FE 4502. [1956]
    • 1956
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LRX 5663 v. 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LRX 5663 v. 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • La voix des tambours: comment comprendre le langage tambouriné d'Afrique/John F. Carrington.

    • Text
    • Kinshasa: Centre protestant d'éditions et de diffusion, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 81-42Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Arokò : àwọn àmì àti ìró ìbániṣòṛò iḷè Yorùbá l'áyé ìjelòó / Ọlatunji Ọpadọtun ("Eléwì Odò").

    • Text
    • Ibadan : Vantage Publishers, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 88-948Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Le langage des tam-tams et des masques en Afrique (bendrologie) : une littérature méconnue / Titinga Frédéric Pacéré.

    • Text
    • Paris : Editions L'Harmattan, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 92-336Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Yoruba drumming : the Dùndún tradition / Akin Euba.

    • Text
    • Ba[y]reuth, W. Germany : Eckhard Breitinger, Bayreuth University ; Lagos, Nigeria : Elekoto Music Centre, University of Lagos, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 92-478Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • African native music, an annotated bibliography, compiled by Douglas H. Varley.

    • Text
    • London, The Royal empire society, 1936.
    • 1936
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 016.78-V (Varley, D. African native music)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Ashanti, by Capt. R. S. Rattray.

    • Text
    • Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1923.
    • 1923
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text QPE (Rattray, R. S. Ashanti)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 572.966-R (Rattray, R. Ashanti)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Talking drums of Africa.

    • Text
    • London, Carey Kingsgate Press [1949]
    • 1949
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text RT (Carrington, J.F. Talking drums of Africa)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc 496-C (Carrington, J. Talking drums of Africa)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • A comparative study of some Central African gong-languages, by J. F. Carrington.

    • Text
    • [Bruxelles, G. van Campenhout, 1949]
    • 1949
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text RAE p.v. 328Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 496-C (Carrington, J. Comparative study of some Central African gong-languages)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • A history of rudimental drumming in America from the Revolutionary War to the present [microform] / by Eric Alan Chandler.

    • Text
    • 1990.
    • 1990
  • Saglgo : poème du tam-tam (pour le Sahel) / [Titinga Frédéric Pacéré].

    • Text
    • [Burkina Faso? : s.n., 1989?]
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 92-131Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Sabar drums, sabar culture.

    • Text
    • 1997
  • C.K. Ganyo, master drummer.

    • Text
    • 1996
  • Making an abstract world concrete : knowledge, competence and structural dimensions of performance among Batá drummers in Santeria / by Robert A. Friedman.

    • Text
    • 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 97-1244Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Tiroro, the Haitian drummer [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • Stamford, Conn. : Cook Records, [195-?]
    • 1950-1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 19700 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Afro-Cuban batá drum aesthetics : developing individual and group technique, sound and identity / by Kenneth George Schweitzer.

    • Text
    • 2003.
    • 2005-2003
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc CD-1257Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 05-2148Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • African and Afro-American drums [sound recording] / edited by Harold Courlander.

    • Audio
    • [New York, N.Y.] : Folkways Records, 1954.
    • 1954
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 61345 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Audio *LZR 61345 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Solo drumming in the Puerto Rican bomba : an analysis of musical processes and improvisational strategies / by Salvador E. Ferreras.

    • Text
    • 2005.
    • 2005
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc CD-1282Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 10-973Offsite
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  • Ancient text messages of the Yorùbá bàtá drum : cracking the code / Amanda Villepastour.

    • Text
    • Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.
    • 2010
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 10-316Offsite
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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc CD-1283Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 10-958Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Sustitutos acústicos del lenguaje verbal : una visión interdisciplinaria de los signos audibles, parafonías y comportamientos sonoros / Jorge Arturo Chamorro Escalante, Fabiola Margarita Zúñiga Vargas, coordinadores.

    • Text
    • Guadalajara, Jalisco : Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de Arte, Arquitectura y Diseño, División de Artes y Humanidades, Departamento de Teorías e Historia, Cuerpo Académico de Arte, Comunicación y Cultura : Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, División de Estudios de la Cultura, Departamento de Estudios Mesoamericanos y Mexicanos, 2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 12-48551Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Les secrets du langage des tam-tams africains / Jérôme N'zébélé ; préface de Daniel Matoko.

    • Text
    • [Évry] : CESBC presses, [2013]
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 15-206Offsite
  • Drummologie akan / Maximin Bene Koffi.

    • Text
    • Paris : L'Harmattan, [2015]
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 16-320Offsite
  • The Yor̀ùbá god of drumming : transatlantic perspectives on the wood that talks / edited by Amanda Villepastour ; preface by J.D.Y. Peel.

    • Text
    • Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 16-77Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • L'usage des instruments de musique dans la communication chez les Kongo / Jean-Claude Moussoki.

    • Text
    • Saint-Denis : Connaissances et savoirs, [2017]
    • 2017-2019
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 19-3447Offsite
  • Les secrets du langage des tam-tams africains / Jérôme N'Zébélé ; préface de Daniel Matokot.

    • Text
    • [Évry] : Centre d'études stratégiques du bassin du Congo, [2013]
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text P99.6 .N93 2013gOff-site
  • The role of the drum in traditional African communications / by Georges Niangoran-Bouah.

    • Text
    • Boston, Mass. : African-American Issues Center, [1984?]
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text P99.6 .N5213 1984gOff-site
  • The African Music Society\u0027s choice--Osborn award.

    • Audio
    • Gallotone, [between 1950 and 1959]
    • 1950-1959
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio L2988 v.1Off-site
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio L2988 v.2Off-site
  • African and Afro-American drums.

    • Audio
    • Folkways Records, 1954.
    • 1954
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio L4125 FE4502Off-site
  • Talking drums of Africa / by J. F. Carrington.

    • Text
    • New York : Negro Universities Press, [1969]
    • 1969-1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML1035 .C3 1969Off-site
  • Schallsignalsprachen in Melanesien und Afrika.

    • Text
    • Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1943.
    • 1943
    • 1 Item
  • African native music : an annotated bibliography / compiled by Douglas H. Varley.

    • Text
    • Folkestone : Dawsons, 1970.
    • 1970-1936
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML120.A35 V31 1970Off-site
  • Extralinguistic usages of tonality in Efik folklore / Donald C. Simmons.

    • Text
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PL8147.5 .S5Off-site
  • Contributions to the doctrine of signs / by Thomas A. Sebeok.

    • Text
    • Lanham, MD : University Press of America, [1985], ©1985.
    • 1985-1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text P99 .S32 1985Off-site
  • Atumpani, le tam-tam parlant : anthropologie de la communication / William De Gaston.

    • Text
    • Paris, France : L'Harmattan, [2004], ©2004.
    • 2004-2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text P99.6 .G37 2004Off-site
  • Ancient text messages of the Yorùbá bàtá drum : cracking the code / Amanda Villepastour.

    • Text
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML1038.B38 V56 2010 1 CDOff-site
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Parole et poesie du tam-tam : version française de Bendr n gomdé / Titinga Frederic Pacere.

    • Text
    • [Ouagadougou] : [publisher not identified], [1988?]
    • 1988-present
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text DT555.4.P33 B4614 1988g v.6Off-site
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text DT555.4.P33 B4614 1988g v.5Off-site
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text DT555.4.P33 B4614 1988g v.4Off-site
  • Saglgo : poème du tam-tam (pour le Sahel) / [Titinga Frédéric Pacéré].

    • Text
    • [Burkina Faso?] : [publisher not identified], [1989?]
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PQ3989.2.P25 S24 1989gOff-site
  • Le langage des tam-tams et des masques en Afrique (bendrologie) : une littérature méconnue / Titinga Frédéric Pacéré.

    • Text
    • Paris : L'Harmattan, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GR351.72.M63 P33 1991Off-site
  • La voix des tambours; comment comprendre le language tambouriné d'Afrique.

    • Text
    • Kinshasa, Centre Protestant d'Éditions et de Diffusion [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text AFR.CONGO. C 234 tFOff-site
  • African native music : an annotated bibliography / compiled by Douglas H. Varley.

    • Text
    • London : The Royal empire society, 1936.
    • 1936
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text L.SOC.48.85.64.2 (8)Off-site
  • Sustitutos acústicos del lenguaje verbal : una visión interdisciplinaria de los signos audibles, parafonías y comportamientos sonoros / Jorge Arturo Chamorro Escalante, Fabiola Margarita Zúñiga Vargas, coordinadores.

    • Text
    • México : Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de Arte, Arquitectura y Diseño, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Cuerpo Académico de Arte, Comunicación y Cultura, 2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text P99.5 .S8 2010Off-site
  • The Yorù̀bá god of drumming : transatlantic perspectives on the wood that talks / edited by Amanda Villepastour ; preface by J.D.Y. Peel.

    • Text
    • Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML3760 .Y67 2015Off-site
  • L'usage des instruments de musique dans la communication chez les Kongo / Jean-Claude Moussoki.

    • Text
    • Saint-Denis : Connaissances et savoirs, [2017].
    • 2017-2019
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text DT650.S94 M68 2017Off-site
  • Tiroro, the Haitian drummer [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • Stamford, Conn. : Cook Records, [195-?]
    • 1950-1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio R 001592 LSOff-site
  • Speech surrogates : drum and whistle systems / edited by Thomas A. Sebeok and Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok.

    • Text
    • The Hague : Mouton, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text P99.5.S6 v. 2Off-site
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text P99.5.S6 v. 1Off-site

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