Shangana-Tsonga drum and bow rhythms
Abstract
- Abstract
- There are exactly four types of Tsonga drum, and four types of bow, and the prevalence of their sounds in Tsongaland outweighs that of any other musical instrument. The former are played mostly by women, the latter mostly by men, and the social role of each instrument is in sharp contrast to that of the other
Description
- Description
- pages: 59-72
Subjects
People & roles
- Author
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Johnston, Thomas F.
Value Annotations
Origins & context
- Is Part Of
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
Origins & context
- Title
- Shangana-Tsonga drum and bow rhythms
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Created Date
- July 7, 1971
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-01af
- Identifier
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1151
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Origins & context
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 78159
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