African metrical lyrics
- Title
- African metrical lyrics
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- The area of Africa with which we are here concerned is the whole of the continent south of the Sahara. The focus of our study is upon the traditional indigenous practice of black Africa, and we shall not therefore consider lyrical patterns which are clearly due to Islamic, European or other outside influence. A lyric, says the dictionary, is a poem which is meant to be sung. While in parts of Africa there Occurs declamatory or eulogistic verse which is spoken or cantillated in a quasi-singing manner, a very great deal perhaps the majority of African verse is lyrical, that is, it is inseparably wedded to a particular tune and only exists as a song in the composers mind, the words and the tune being generated simultaneously as a single indivisible unit.
- Description
- pages: 6-14
- Created Date
- June 20, 1964
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
-
Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Author
-
Jones, A. M.
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- SOAS University of London
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0113
- Identifier
-
1030
Value Annotations
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 76917
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