ABSTRACT
Note. Numbers in boldface following entries are volume numbers.
aak 'Elegant music', Korean Confucian ritual music. (7)
Aaksŏ Office of Ritual Music, Korean Chosŏn period. (7)
Aaktae Korean court music department, under Japanese colonial rule. (7)
aalakan Tausug deep-rimmed bossed gong. (4)
abajeños 'From lower lands', Purépecha instru mental mestizo music for zapateados. (2)
Abaluhya Subgroup of the Luhya cluster of peoples living in Kenya. (1)
ab ander ado Chilean conductor of a baile or cofradia dancing group. (2)
abangan Syncretic Javanese Muslims. (4) abangarang (Also abaqgararj.) Berta song-
accompanying lyre. (1) abaphakathi South African popular performers
whose competence and versatility secured a free existence for them. (1)
abaqhafi "Street cowboys" who wandered through South African cities and played Zulu guitar songs. (1)
abbaddata Southern Corsican term for a dance around a corpse; see ballata. (8)
abbanga Posture used in odissi dance. (5) abbinaya Portrayal of emotions or expression
through gestures, postures, and facial expres sion. (5)
abbisbēka Ritual bathing of a deity's statue in various sacred substances. (5)
abchodnyja pieśni Belarusan festive "walkabout" songs, sung while villagers make the rounds of their neighbors' homesteads in spring. (8)
abeimahani Unaccompanied Garifuna women's song, a category of úyanu. (2)
abelagudahani 'Bringing-in' song performed at the beginning of the Garifuna dügü ritual to escort fishermen to and from the sea. (2)
abeng Jamaican cow-horn trumpet. (2) abhang (Also abhang, abhango.) Devotional
songs of Maharashtra and Gujarar. (5)
abbog Fourth section of dirrupad composition. (5)
abi Zaghawi old women's song praising camel men. (1)
aboakyere Festival of the Brong and Effutu of Ghana, in which local residents may criticize the chief. (1)
abofoo Dance performed by Akan hunters to cleanse the hunter who killed the animal. (1)
aboio Brazilian cantoria cowboy cattle-herding song genre featuring the imitation of cattle. (2)
abyāt Vocal introduction to the nūba in Tuni sian traditional music. (6)
ācārya (Also pandit.) Learned individual quali fied to serve as a guru. (5)
ACCESS Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, an institution providing support for Arab music and musi cians in Detroit, among other services. (6)
accordeon (Dutch.) Accordion of the Low Countries. (8)
accordéon (French.) Accordion of the Low Countries. (8)
accordéon jurassien Musette-tuned accordion of Jura, Switzerland. (8)
accordion Portable wind instrument with a keyboard. (3)
acculturation Assimilation of traits from one culture to another; changes that occur when members of different cultures come into continuous contact, involving complex rela tionships of cultural, economic, and political dominance. (1, 2)
Acemasiran Common Turkish makam resem bling the Western major scale. (6)
achangur Abkhazian four-stringed plucked lute. (8)
achari (Also devi ke gīt.) Songs in the Bundeli dialect in praise of the Mother Goddess. (5)
acharpan Abkhazian whistle flute, made from mountain grass. (8)
achetringele Clapper bell of Laupen, Bern, Swit zerland. (8)
Achimota School Prestigious institution in Ghana where Ephraim Amu taught indige nous music. (1)
Acholi A people living in Uganda. (1) acid house Subcategory of house music reper
toire that media often associate with drugs, especially Ecstasy (or "E"). (3)
açtş (Also ayak.) Prelude in free rhythm to the Turkish instrumental uzun hava. (6)
acordeon Accordion of Romania. (8) acordeón 'Accordion', in many regions of
Spanish-speaking America, a multiple singlereed-concussion aerophone with bellows, either with buttons or keyboard for melody, and buttons for bass notes. (2)
acoustic rules Constraints on the quality of sound produced by a voice or an instrument. (1)
'açrī 'Contemporary', genre of Algerian popular music drawing on Western dance music. (6)
adaha Style of highlife that grew out of colonial military-band music. (1)
adaha ademi hidi Yekuana garden song festival. (2)
adakem Struck box idiophone of West Africa. (1)
adalo Colo kudu or Waterhuck horn with lateral mouth hole and calabash bell. (1)
àdàmò Yoruba pressure drum. (1) adaul Abkhazian double-headed drum. (8) adavu Dance steps used in mōhini āttam. (5) adawo Jamaican machete played as an
idiophone struck with a piece of metal. (2) adbbuta 'Wondrous', one of the eight emotional
states (rasa) codified in the Nātyaś āstra. (5) ademi Yekuana large group song. (2) adhān (Also azan, ezan.) Islamic call to prayer,
performed five times per day by a solo vocalist from the mosque. (1, 4, 6)
adhān shar'ī Syllabic rendition of the adhān (call to prayer), alternating between two notes a step apart. (6)
adho nāc Malwa dance with vocal and instru mental accompaniment. (5)
Volume Key: 1, Africa; 2, South America, Mexico, etc.; 3, United States and Canada; 4, Southeast Asia; 5, South Asia; 6, Middle East; 7, East Asia; 8, Europe; 9, Australia and the Pacific Islands; 10, The World's Music.
