Mohambi xylophone music of the Shangana-Tsonga
Abstract
- Abstract
- The Tsonga of Mozambique and South Africa are located between the Venda in the northwest and the Chopi in the southeast. While the large Venda xylophones have all but disappeared in the last forty years, Chopi xylophone playing is widely practised and the Chopi orchestras are famous both in the homeland and in the Johannesburg gold-mine compounds. It is on the Chopi timbila that the Tsonga model their mohambi xylophone, often obtaining the ready-made slats by barter and then assembling a copy of the rest of the instrument themselves
Description
- Description
- pages: 86-93
Subjects
- Subject
- African Music
People & roles
- Author
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Johnston, Thomas F.
Value Annotations
Origins & context
- Is Part Of
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
Origins & context
- Title
- Mohambi xylophone music of the Shangana-Tsonga
- 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
- November 30, 1973
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-01dd
- Identifier
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1663
Value Annotations
Origins & context
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 78543
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