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ANNUAL  REPORT  1965-66

The following are  Papers read or presented at  Conferences and
materials published during  1965-66 academic year by  Senior Members
of the  Institute.

(A)  Name:  Professor J . H.  Nketia.  Status;  Director

Titles of  Papers read or presented at  Conferences:

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1.  Artistic  Values  in African  Music
2.  Music  in African Cultures
3.  Musicology  and African  Music
4.  Multi-part  Organisation  in the  Music of the Gogo

of Tanzania.

5.  Music  Education  in African Schools
6.  The use of authentic  fold music in  Music  Education

Publications during  the year:

1.  Music,  Dance and Drama:  a  review of  the Performing

Arts of  Ghana.
'Artistic Values in African  Music' The Composer
Vol.  N o.  1966  p.
'The Dimensions of  Musical  Studies' 
in Traditional  Music,  p.
(German  translation of  Music  in African  Cultures)

' Artistic  Values

2. 

3. 

4. 

(B)  Name:  K.A.B.  Jones-Quartey  Status:  Associate Professor

Titles of  Papers read or presented at Conferences:

1.  "Ghana:  Historical Background from  Independence
to the  Present" -  Valco Orientation Course,  Legon,
April  18,  1966.

2.  "Opposition:  Con land Pro",  History  Department

Staff  Seminar,  Legon, June 2,  1966.

3.  "What Went Wrong with the Ghana  Press:  1951-1966",

in  I.P.E.  Lecture Series,  Accra,  June 3,  1966.

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Publications during  the year;

1.  "Press Archives  Research as an Approach to West African
History",  in  Research Review,  Legon,  Michaelmas Term,
1965-66.

2.  "Tragedy and the African Audience" ,  in Okyeame,

September,  1966

3.  A  Life of Azikiwe  -  Penguins,  African  Series,  July,  1965.

(C)  Name:  Gilbert  Ansre:  Status;  Research Fellow  in

Linguistics

Publications during the  year;

1.  Verbids  -  A  Caveat  to  'Serial Verbs'.  Journal of West

African  Languages, Vol.3  No. 1.  University of Cambridge
Press,  London.

(D)  Name;  A . S . Y.  Andoh 

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Titles of  Papers read or presented at  Conferences;

Status;  Secretary/Senior  Research
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Fellow

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1.  The Constitutions and their Amendments (in  Institute

of  Publication  Education  Lecture  Series on  'What Went
Wrong  In  Ghana1,  from  1957-1966).

2.  Political  Developments  in Ghana  1951-1966.

(to American University-African  Area  Programme
June 29,  1966).

Publications during  the  year;

1.  A note on  "Ntam"in  Research Review Vol.2  No.3
2.  Epitaph  to Ghana's  First Republic  (Draft  Paper).

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(E)  Name;  Dr.  J . M.  Stewart 

Status:  Senior  Research  Fellow

Titles of  Papers read or presented at  Conferences;

1. 

'Tongue  Root Position  in Akan Vowel  Harmon/1
(at  Universite  Federate  du Cameroun,  Yaounde
16th-23rd  March,  1966).

Publications during the  year:

1.  The above  paper has been accepted  for  publication

2. 

4. 

3. 

in  Phonetica
'Akan  History:  Some linguistic  evidence',  to appear
in  Ghana  Notes and  Queries
'Asanre Twi  in the  Polyglotra Africana1,  to appear  in
the  Sierra  Leone  Language  Review.
'Comparative  Study of the  Volta-Comoe  Languages',
Research Review,  Vol.2,  part 2  1966,  pp.41-47.
5.  Awutu,  Larteh,  Nkonya  and  Krachi,  No. 1 in the

series Comparative  African Wordiists.

6.  Edited the  following  numbers of the Comparative  African

Wordlftti Series.

N o .l  Awutu,  Larteh,  Nkonya  and  Krachi  by  J .M

Stewart.  (No.5  above)

No.2  Ga,  Adcngme and Ewe,  by M.E.  Kropp

7.  Edited the  following  numbers of the Collected  Language

Notes Series:

No.3  The  Phonology of  Konkomba,  by

M.  Steele and G.  Weed.

No.4  The  Phonology of Vagala,  by Crouch

and N.  Smiles.

No.5  The  Phonology of Basari,  by  M.  Abbott

and M.  Cox.

No.6  The  Phonology of Dagaari,  by S.  Ktrniey
No.7.Linguistic  field notes from Banda, and

"ogy
Tfeia

(language maps of  the  Guang speaking areas
(langu
by  C.

inter.

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(F)  Name:  N.O.Addo 

Status:  Research  Fellow

Titles of  Papers read or presented at Conferences:

1.  Demographic  Aspects of  Urban Development  in Ghana

in the 20th Century,  read at  Conference,  Ibadan
University  3rd-7th  Jan.  1966.

Publications during the  year:

1.  Madina;  A survey of the Development of a  Contemporary

sub-urban settlement  in  Ghana,  by A.K.  Quarcoo,
N . O.  Addo and M.  Peil  (July,  1966).
(Preliminary  Report).

2. 

(G)  Name;  Mrs.  C.  Oppong  Status:  Research  Fellow

Publications during  the  year;

1.  The Dagomba  Response to the  Introduction of  State

Schools in  Ghana  (Soc.  Review Vol.2  No. 1).

(H)  Name:  A.K.  Quarcoo  Status:  Research  Fellow

Titles of  Papers read or presented at Conferences:

1.  Family and Tribal  mores in  Ghana
2.  Mythology  Religion and Festivals in  Ghana

Publications during the year:

1.  Shai  Pottery  -  Hambolt  University  Journal
2.  Madina  Survey (Part  I)  -  Research Review  (supplement)

Trinity,  1965.

3.  Collections  -  1964-65  -  Professor Nketia  arranging

for  its publication.  "Ghanaian  Plastic Arts"

4.  "Pottery  in Ghana"  -  (Past and  Present,  State  Publishing

Corporation)

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(1)  Name:  K.N.Bame  Status:  Asst.Secretary/Research

Fellow.

Publications during  the  /ear:

1.  The  Parent and Teacher Association  (Ghana

Teachers' Journal,  1965  No.3)

2.  Politics Without  Parties (The  Legon Observer Vol. 1

No.4,  19th Aug.  1966)

(J)  Name:  A . C.  Denteh  Status:  Principal  Research Assistant

Grade  I.

Publications during  the year

1.  Akanfoo Asranna  (for  1966)

(K)  Name:  Miss Blum 

Status: 

Instructor

Titles of  Papers read or presented at  Conferences:

1.  "How  to present  the  reading of dance to Beginning

Notation  Students"  (Score Analyses).

Publications during the year:

1.  Dance  Score of  Doris Humphreys  "Water  Study".

(L)  Name  :  Mist  Elizabeth  Partos  Status!  Tutor  In Music

Titles of  Papers read or presented at Conferences

1.  The Place of Western Music  in the  Music  Education

of  Africa.

Publications during the  year:

1. 

'The  Place of Western  Music  in the  Music  Education
of Africa1.  (Research Review Vol.2  No.3,  Trinity
Term  1966).

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(M)  Name:  N . Z . N a yo 

Status:  Tutor

Titles of  Papers read or presented at  Conferences

1.  "Melody  and Harmony  in African  Music"  at  Ghana

Society  of  Musicians Conference  21st  May,  1966.

Publications during the  year:

1.  Musical  Compositions -  Cello and Piano

(a)  "A  Husago Theme"
(b)  "Companions"

Claniet and Piano

(c)  "Conflict and Victory"
(d)  "An Akpalu Theme"

Piano Duet

(e)  "Akpalu-Alakple"

(N)  Name:  J.P.Y.  Kedjanyi 

Status:  Senior Technician

Publications during the year:
1.  Set-Design and the  Student of Drama.  Published

by the School of Music  & Drama,  University of
Ghana,  Legon.

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