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Authors: Elias Silaule and group of 7 Shangaan men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Tsonga , Ronga language , Tsonga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Manica f-mz
Language: Ronga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153091 , vital:39392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR074-03
Description: The song is about working on the mine. A certain man with a bald head figures largely and one of the episodes in the song is about how the singers saw this bald head shinning like glass. So one of them hit it to seeif it would break, but it bled instead. This skilled form of unison singing must demand considerable rehearsal to get it perfect. It is usually gay, rhythmic and cleverly syncopated eben breaking into speech for dramatic effect as in this example. Kwaya topical song.
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Date Issued: 1958

Authors: Elias Silaule and group of 7 Shangaan men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Tsonga , Ronga language , Tsonga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Manica, (Near Lourenco Marques) f-mz
Language: Ronga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153105 , vital:39394 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR074-05
Description: "The people in Johannesburg must hear this song." This kind of recitative singing is typical of the whole Shangaan or Tsonga group of sub-tribes. It is cleverly performed and demands a good memory and plenty of reharsal. In the words, it must prove an effective recreation for the performers or else they would not expend so much creative energy and time upon perfecting their performances. Topical song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

Authors: Elias Silaule and group of 7 Shangaan men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Tsonga , Ronga language , Tsonga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Manica, (Near Lourenco Marques) f-mz
Language: Ronga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153100 , vital:39393 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR074-04
Description: "The people in Johannesburg must hear this song." This kind of recitative singing is typical of the whole Shangaan or Tsonga group of sub-tribes. It is cleverly performed and demands a good memory and plenty of reharsal. In the words, it must prove an effective recreation for the performers or else they would not expend so much creative energy and time upon perfecting their performances. Topical song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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