John Brearley Botswana Collection
Guitar song. Bakadzi kulu Chinukane
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Type
sound
Duration
00:05:36
Shelf mark
C65/62; kalahari_4_MZ00024.WAV
Subjects
Guitar
Recording date
2007-08-17
Is part of (Collection)
John Brearley Botswana Collection
Recording locations
Nata, Botswana
Performers
John, Kenny (guitar / singer, male)
Recordist
Brearley, John
Description
(Kalanga) fade is natural
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User notes for this item
African Harmony: *The bass movement goes from (what would be considered such in the west) a 1, 4, 5. Interestingly the intervals of the octave, 4ths and 5ths are nearly ubiquitous in traditional african harmonic processes. *The chordal movement is a balance between homophonic parallelism and pedal note movement. *Due to the short length of the chordal melody it essentially takes on the role of an ostinato. *This is an example of neo-ttraditional music. while some aspects are clearly western in original, others such as those above show a clear African predilection namely, the tendency to adopt foreign elements that do not conflict with existing processes.
Posted by Daniel Jones, Researcher on 16/04/2019 01:07:00