David Rycroft South Africa Collection

Stylistic continuity- musical examples for paper: Lesiba solo.

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  • Type

    sound

  • Duration

    00:23:09

  • Cultures

    Sotho

  • Shelf mark

    C811/102

  • Subjects

    Sotho folksongs and dance , musical bow songs-Africa (Sotho) , lesiba

  • Recording date

    1976

  • Recording locations

    South Africa

  • Performers

    unidentified (lesiba mouth bow)

  • Recordist

    Rycroft, David, 1924-1997

  • Description

    This recording is a part of a collection of musical examples which Rycroft has taken from his field recordings to accompany his paper on continuity in Zulu music (Rycroft, D. 1977. 'Stylistic continuity in Zulu Town Music'. In Essays for a Humanist an Offering to Klaus Wachsmann. New York: The Town House Press, pp. 216-260).This is a dubbing of a recoridng made in 1976. This is a solo song on the lesiba mouth bow.

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Stylistic continuity- musical examples for paper: Lesiba solo.

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