The soul of Mozambique: an autoethnographic and performance-based study on the correlation of glabalisation, Chopi people migrations and the reinterpretation of timbila music in Mozambique
- Authors: Bande Júnior, Venâncio
- Date: 2022-10-14
- Subjects: Timbila , Chopi (African people) Mozambique , Music festivals Mozambique , Traditional knowledge , Music and globalization , Modernity , Traditional folk music
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/406818 , vital:70310
- Description: This is an autoethnographic and performance-based study on the correlation between indigenous and modern cultures. It discusses the influence of globalisation, modernity, and of the Chopi people migrations to Maputo, the main city of Mozambique and to gold and platinum mines in South Africa, on timbila music. Timbila is both the name of a musical instrument (xylophone) and of a cultural manifestation, practiced by the Chopi people from Mozambique. It is one of the most documented music and dance cultures in Mozambique and was proclaimed as a masterpiece of the oral and immaterial heritage of humanity by UNESCO in 2005. The oldest references by Father Andre Fernandes date from the 16th century. However, the most well-known timbila sources were written and recorded by Hugh Tracey, the founder of the International Library of African Music (ILAM), from 1940s. All these sources were based on traditional timbila music. None refers to contemporary timbila music, which is a mixture of timbila with Western musical instruments. The research is thus based on both historical and is new research to understand the role of the phenomena mentioned above to the reinterpretation of timbila music over the time. Performance based and autoethnography methods were selected because of my role as a pedagogue of the music and culture of timbila, allowing me to express my knowledge on this cultural expression. Literature review and interviews are the two procedures of data collecting employed to get an understanding of the research methods; the phenomena of modernity, globalisation and of the Chopis migration for the searching of better living conditions in Maputo and South Africa; and the approaches of different scholars who have written about timbila. The use of these methods and methodologies, allowed me to conclude that, Chopis migrations, modernity and globalisation has allowed the emergence of a modern version of timbila music; internationalisation and dissemination of this musical expression; and contributes to the extinction of traditional timbila orchestras in Zavala. Despite considerable studies on timbila music and culture, this thesis is important and pioneering, from the perspective of studying the influence of Chopis migrations, globalisation and modernity on timbila and is one of the few sources that approach the contemporary timbila music. , Thesis (MMus) -- Faculty of Humanities, Music and Musicology, 2022
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- Date Issued: 2022-10-14
- Authors: Bande Júnior, Venâncio
- Date: 2022-10-14
- Subjects: Timbila , Chopi (African people) Mozambique , Music festivals Mozambique , Traditional knowledge , Music and globalization , Modernity , Traditional folk music
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/406818 , vital:70310
- Description: This is an autoethnographic and performance-based study on the correlation between indigenous and modern cultures. It discusses the influence of globalisation, modernity, and of the Chopi people migrations to Maputo, the main city of Mozambique and to gold and platinum mines in South Africa, on timbila music. Timbila is both the name of a musical instrument (xylophone) and of a cultural manifestation, practiced by the Chopi people from Mozambique. It is one of the most documented music and dance cultures in Mozambique and was proclaimed as a masterpiece of the oral and immaterial heritage of humanity by UNESCO in 2005. The oldest references by Father Andre Fernandes date from the 16th century. However, the most well-known timbila sources were written and recorded by Hugh Tracey, the founder of the International Library of African Music (ILAM), from 1940s. All these sources were based on traditional timbila music. None refers to contemporary timbila music, which is a mixture of timbila with Western musical instruments. The research is thus based on both historical and is new research to understand the role of the phenomena mentioned above to the reinterpretation of timbila music over the time. Performance based and autoethnography methods were selected because of my role as a pedagogue of the music and culture of timbila, allowing me to express my knowledge on this cultural expression. Literature review and interviews are the two procedures of data collecting employed to get an understanding of the research methods; the phenomena of modernity, globalisation and of the Chopis migration for the searching of better living conditions in Maputo and South Africa; and the approaches of different scholars who have written about timbila. The use of these methods and methodologies, allowed me to conclude that, Chopis migrations, modernity and globalisation has allowed the emergence of a modern version of timbila music; internationalisation and dissemination of this musical expression; and contributes to the extinction of traditional timbila orchestras in Zavala. Despite considerable studies on timbila music and culture, this thesis is important and pioneering, from the perspective of studying the influence of Chopis migrations, globalisation and modernity on timbila and is one of the few sources that approach the contemporary timbila music. , Thesis (MMus) -- Faculty of Humanities, Music and Musicology, 2022
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- Date Issued: 2022-10-14
Africa‘s Heritage No.8: The Future
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: African , Heritage , Legacy , Character , Personality , Parasites , Zulu , Praises , Izibongo , Bunyoro , Uganda , Hutu , Tutsi , Hehe , Kikuyu , Masai , Yao , Chewa , Rwanda , Kenya , Nyasaland , Ndebele , Mzilikazi , Zezuru , Drums , Flutes , Lamentation , Negro slaves music , Pula , Rain song , Tswana , Chief Batwe Village , Kanye , Nandi people , Zande people , Northern Congo , Lobatse , Bechuanaland , Mbira , Famine songs , Religious songs , Rhodesia , Lake Victoria , Spirit of the Lake , Bantu , Broken drum , Work songs , Singing , Political , Cultural heritage , Independent , Interdependence , South Africa , Dances , Folk stories , Jesuits , Missionaries , Father Fernandes, Andrea , Inyarime River , Portuguese , Xylophone , Chopi , Timbila , Hymns , Clapping , Church , Guitar , Nyoro people , Masindi , Percussion instrument , Nashville , Tennessee , Hammer songs , Preditors , Chingoma chakubaruka , Mbuluwundi, Reuben Tancard
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15116 , BC134 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011534 , Reel number: BC134
- Description: 8th programme in the ‘Africa‘s Heritage‘ Series, broadcast by the South African Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: African , Heritage , Legacy , Character , Personality , Parasites , Zulu , Praises , Izibongo , Bunyoro , Uganda , Hutu , Tutsi , Hehe , Kikuyu , Masai , Yao , Chewa , Rwanda , Kenya , Nyasaland , Ndebele , Mzilikazi , Zezuru , Drums , Flutes , Lamentation , Negro slaves music , Pula , Rain song , Tswana , Chief Batwe Village , Kanye , Nandi people , Zande people , Northern Congo , Lobatse , Bechuanaland , Mbira , Famine songs , Religious songs , Rhodesia , Lake Victoria , Spirit of the Lake , Bantu , Broken drum , Work songs , Singing , Political , Cultural heritage , Independent , Interdependence , South Africa , Dances , Folk stories , Jesuits , Missionaries , Father Fernandes, Andrea , Inyarime River , Portuguese , Xylophone , Chopi , Timbila , Hymns , Clapping , Church , Guitar , Nyoro people , Masindi , Percussion instrument , Nashville , Tennessee , Hammer songs , Preditors , Chingoma chakubaruka , Mbuluwundi, Reuben Tancard
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15116 , BC134 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011534 , Reel number: BC134
- Description: 8th programme in the ‘Africa‘s Heritage‘ Series, broadcast by the South African Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
- Full Text: false
Chopi Xylophones and Shembe Original Music
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Narration , Music , Chopi , Mozambique , Southern Africa , Xylophones , Making of xylophones , Musical instrument , Play , Trees , Greenwood tree , Mukusu tree , Sounding notes , Hard shelled fruits , Wild rubber , Resonator , Beeswax , Slow fire , Ngodo dance , Timbila , Antelope horn , Trumpets , Rattles , Whistling , Drums , Singing , African Christian community , Zulu Church of Shembe , Pilgrimage , Shembe , Nhlangakazi , Sacred places , Barefoot , Shembe, Amos , Shembe, Galilie , Zulu hymn , Church service , Solemn vow stones , Altar , Shrine flowers , Beads , Dancing kilt , Zulu feather head dress , Traditional costumes , Umbrellas , Decorative sticks , Reverend Ngoma, Fred , Prayer , Izibongo , Praises of God , Apron , Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy , Spring water , Kiln , Zulu summer
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15132 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012160 , Reel numbers: BC156, BC157
- Description: Broadcast entitled 'Chopi Xylophones and Shembe Original Music', for the television film programme broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Narration , Music , Chopi , Mozambique , Southern Africa , Xylophones , Making of xylophones , Musical instrument , Play , Trees , Greenwood tree , Mukusu tree , Sounding notes , Hard shelled fruits , Wild rubber , Resonator , Beeswax , Slow fire , Ngodo dance , Timbila , Antelope horn , Trumpets , Rattles , Whistling , Drums , Singing , African Christian community , Zulu Church of Shembe , Pilgrimage , Shembe , Nhlangakazi , Sacred places , Barefoot , Shembe, Amos , Shembe, Galilie , Zulu hymn , Church service , Solemn vow stones , Altar , Shrine flowers , Beads , Dancing kilt , Zulu feather head dress , Traditional costumes , Umbrellas , Decorative sticks , Reverend Ngoma, Fred , Prayer , Izibongo , Praises of God , Apron , Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy , Spring water , Kiln , Zulu summer
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15132 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012160 , Reel numbers: BC156, BC157
- Description: Broadcast entitled 'Chopi Xylophones and Shembe Original Music', for the television film programme broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
- Full Text: false
Chopi Xylophones and Zulu Christian Dances
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Narration , Music , Chopi , Mozambique , Southern Africa , Xylophones , Making of xylophones , Musical instrument , Play , Trees , Greenwood tree , Mukusu tree , Sounding notes , Hard shelled fruits , Wild rubber , Resonator , Beeswax , Slow fire , Ngodo dance , Timbila , Antelope horn , Trumpets , Rattles , Whistling , Drums , Singing , African Christian community , Zulu Church of Shembe , Pilgrimage , Shembe , Nhlangakazi , Religious dancing , Sacred places , Barefoot , Shembe, Amos , Shembe, Galilie , Zulu hymn , Church service , Solemn vow stones , Altar , Shrine flowers , Beads , Dancing kilt , Zulu feather head dress , Traditional costumes , Umbrellas , Decorative sticks , Reverend Ngoma, Fred , Prayer , Izibongo , Praises of God , Apron , Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy , Spring water , Kiln , Zulu summer
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15130 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012109 , Reel numbers: BC153, BC154
- Description: Broadcast copy of the original entitled 'Chopi Xylophones and Zulu Christian Dances', for the television film programme broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Narration , Music , Chopi , Mozambique , Southern Africa , Xylophones , Making of xylophones , Musical instrument , Play , Trees , Greenwood tree , Mukusu tree , Sounding notes , Hard shelled fruits , Wild rubber , Resonator , Beeswax , Slow fire , Ngodo dance , Timbila , Antelope horn , Trumpets , Rattles , Whistling , Drums , Singing , African Christian community , Zulu Church of Shembe , Pilgrimage , Shembe , Nhlangakazi , Religious dancing , Sacred places , Barefoot , Shembe, Amos , Shembe, Galilie , Zulu hymn , Church service , Solemn vow stones , Altar , Shrine flowers , Beads , Dancing kilt , Zulu feather head dress , Traditional costumes , Umbrellas , Decorative sticks , Reverend Ngoma, Fred , Prayer , Izibongo , Praises of God , Apron , Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy , Spring water , Kiln , Zulu summer
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15130 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012109 , Reel numbers: BC153, BC154
- Description: Broadcast copy of the original entitled 'Chopi Xylophones and Zulu Christian Dances', for the television film programme broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
- Full Text: false
Mtsitso we Mbidi
- Komukomu weSimbi and the village xylophone orchestra of Regulo Mbanguzi (Performer), Composer not specified
- Authors: Komukomu weSimbi and the village xylophone orchestra of Regulo Mbanguzi (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Xylophone orchestral dance , Indigenous folk music , Second orchestral introduction , Timbila , Mgodo , Rattle , Regulo Mbanguzi , Zavala District , Mozambique
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15441 , MOA31-12 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017747 , MOA31
- Description: Xylophone orchestral dance by Komukomu weSimbi and the village xylophone orchestra of Regulo Mbanguzi, with 5 timbila xylophones, accompanied by one rattle , English translation of title: 'Second orchestral introduction' , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Komukomu weSimbi and the village xylophone orchestra of Regulo Mbanguzi (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Xylophone orchestral dance , Indigenous folk music , Second orchestral introduction , Timbila , Mgodo , Rattle , Regulo Mbanguzi , Zavala District , Mozambique
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15441 , MOA31-12 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017747 , MOA31
- Description: Xylophone orchestral dance by Komukomu weSimbi and the village xylophone orchestra of Regulo Mbanguzi, with 5 timbila xylophones, accompanied by one rattle , English translation of title: 'Second orchestral introduction' , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
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The Sound of Africa: High Commission Territories: The music of Mozambique
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Singing , Guitars , Portuguese East Africa , Mozambique , Atlantic sailors , Indian Ocean , Arabs , Dhows , Father Fernandes, Andrea , Henry VIII , Sofala , Indigenous songs , Jesuits , Missionaries , 1560s , Fado , Bow tune , Chitende bow , Elizabethan times , Rhodesians , Pop songs , Tonga , Indian , Menina Indiana , Ngoma ya Shirilo , Gomez, Feliciano Mutano , Lourenco Marques , Shangaan , Shanga , Ndau , Masapa , Ndodya mutombo , Magical charms , Mbira dza waNdau , Father Dos Santos , Mwadziitira , Xylophones , Mbira notes , Chopi , Dance , Rattles , Save River , Marimba , Malimba , Ngodo , Msitso , Karanga , Monomutapa , Movement , Timbila , Mzeno , Chibudu , Komukomu , Lawanani michanja , Whistling , Msungiso wa siwaka
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15114 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011512 , Reel numbers: BC121, BC122
- Description: 4th programme in ‘The Sound of Africa‘ Series IV of illustrated talks by Hugh Tracey on his travels in search of African music, broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation , Feature programme for the BBC , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Singing , Guitars , Portuguese East Africa , Mozambique , Atlantic sailors , Indian Ocean , Arabs , Dhows , Father Fernandes, Andrea , Henry VIII , Sofala , Indigenous songs , Jesuits , Missionaries , 1560s , Fado , Bow tune , Chitende bow , Elizabethan times , Rhodesians , Pop songs , Tonga , Indian , Menina Indiana , Ngoma ya Shirilo , Gomez, Feliciano Mutano , Lourenco Marques , Shangaan , Shanga , Ndau , Masapa , Ndodya mutombo , Magical charms , Mbira dza waNdau , Father Dos Santos , Mwadziitira , Xylophones , Mbira notes , Chopi , Dance , Rattles , Save River , Marimba , Malimba , Ngodo , Msitso , Karanga , Monomutapa , Movement , Timbila , Mzeno , Chibudu , Komukomu , Lawanani michanja , Whistling , Msungiso wa siwaka
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15114 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011512 , Reel numbers: BC121, BC122
- Description: 4th programme in ‘The Sound of Africa‘ Series IV of illustrated talks by Hugh Tracey on his travels in search of African music, broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation , Feature programme for the BBC , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
- Full Text: false
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