Arthur Morris Jones

Arthur Morris Jones (* 1889, † 1980) was a British ethnomusicologist, who worked as a missionary in Zambia Protestant in the early twentieth century. He was stationed at St. Mark's School in Mapanza in the southern province of present-day Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia ). He was known for its ethno- musicological work, particularly his two-volume studies on African music ( Studies in African Music ). He contributed with his work on African Ryhthmusstruktur important to justify the research on African music. From 1952 to 1966 he was a lecturer in African music at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

In 1934 he introduced the concept of cross - rhythm. This is a special type of polyrhythm: Movement formulas, phrases or motifs are combined with one another that their reps stressed accents or the reference points of their main hits " cross ", that is, the reference points do not mix.

He put on a controversial theory about scales or scales and on the Amadindamusik ( he claimed the wooden xylophone was introduced from Southeast Asia to Africa ). One hundred of his field recordings (on acetate material ) are part of the British Library Sound Archive.

Works

• Africa and Indonesia: The Evidence of the Xylophone and Other Musical and Cultural Factors. Leiden: Brill, 1964.
• African Music. Rhodes - Livingstone Museum Occasional Papers; No. 2 Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia: Rhodes - Livingstone Institute, 1943.
• African Rhythm. London: International African Institute, 1954.
• Studies in African Music. 2 vols. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
• With L. Kombe: The ICILA Dance, Old Style. A Study in African Music and Dance of the Lala Tribe of Northern Rhodesia. Roodepoort, South Africa: Published in Longmans, Green and Co. publisher of the African Music Society, 1952.