ISBN:
9781868146062
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1868146065
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9781868148288
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1868148289
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1868146057
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9781868146055
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (434 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Third edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kirby, Percival R Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa
Keywords:
Musical instruments
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Indigenous peoples
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MUSIC - Ethnomusicology
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Indigenous peoples
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Musical instruments
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South Africa
Abstract:
One of the greatest South African musicologists and ethnomusicologists, Percival R. Kirby was concerned about the demise of traditional cultural practices of African people. Whilst at Wits, he was encouraged by his colleagues, people like Raymond Dart and Louis Maingard, to make a comprehensive study of the musical practices of the indigenous peoples of southern Africa. Between 1923 and 1933, supported by several study grants, he traveled thousands of miles undertaking more than nine special expeditions as well as many shorter excursions in his ancient Model T Ford to places like Pietersburg a
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THIRD EDITION; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; 1 RATTLES AND CLAPPERS; 2 DRUMS; 3 XYLOPHONES AND 'SANSAS'; 4 BULL-ROARERS AND SPINNING-DISKS; 5 HORNS AND TRUMPETS; 6 WHISTLES, FLUTES, AND VIBRATING REEDS; 7 REED-FLUTE ENSEMBLES; 8 THE 'GORA', A STRINGED-WIND INSTRUMENT; 9 STRINGED INSTRUMENTS; 10 BUSHMAN AND HOTTENTOT VIOLINS AND THE 'RAMKIE'; 11 SOME EUROPEAN INSTRUMENTS PLAYED BY NATIVES; APPENDIX; ADDENDA; INDEX.
Note:
Includes index
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
