Africa

United States of America

Chair, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

stone@indiana.edu

Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Professor of Ethnomusicology
Indiana University
504 N. Fess
Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA

phone: 812-855-0398
fax: 812-855-4008

Liberia

Let the Inside Be Sweet: The Interpretation of Music Event among the Kpelle
of Liberia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, xxvi, 182 pp., 1982.

Dried Millet Breaking: Time, Words, and Song in the Woi Epic of the Kpelle.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, xvii, 150 pp., 1988.

Editor of:

African Music and Oral Data: A Catalog of Field Recordings 1902-1975. Edited
with Frank J. Gillis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, xviii, 412 pp.,
1976.

Performance in Contemporary African Arts. Edited by Ruth M. Stone.
Introduction by Ruth M. Stone. Bloomington: African Studies and Journal of
Folklore Research.

Also published as a double issue of the Journal of Folklore Research, vol.
25, nos. 1/2. 140 pp., 1988.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa. Volume 1. New York: Garland
Publishing, xv, 851 pp., 1998.

Garland Handbook of African Music. New York: Garland Publishing, xv, 397
pp. 1999.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The World's Music: General Perspectives
and Reference Tools. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Traveling Home: Music, Politics, and the Commemoration of a Life. In
Five Windows on Africa. CD-ROM. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2000. See: http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-33759-3.shtml

Liberia ; Kpelle ; African music ; African art ; folklore