David Rycroft South Africa Collection

Metre in South African praise poetry: Rycroft and Hodza interview.

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  • Type

    sound

  • Duration

    00:13:38

  • Cultures

    Shona

  • Shelf mark

    C811/104

  • Subjects

    Shona folksongs and dance , praise poetry-Africa (Shona) , nhetembo

  • Recording date

    1976

  • Recording locations

    Salisbury (former name for Harare), Zimbabwe

  • Recordist

    Rycroft, David, 1924-1997

  • Speakers

    Hodza, Aaron C, 1924-1983 (male)

  • Description

    Rycroft comments that the clapping was much slower in the ancestral poem than in the nhetembo poems. He asks Mr. Hodza to repeat the same two lines of the ancestral poem, this time in ordinary spoken ChiShona, and then to recite the same two lines for the comparison. This recording was dubbed by Rycroft in use as an example in his paper on South African praise poetry (Rycroft, D.,1980, 'The question of metre in South African praise poetry', Wentzel, J. P (Ed.) Third African Languages Congress of UNISA, Pretoria: University of South Africa, pp 289-312).

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