Collection : Venda Music: Recorded Examples by John Blacking [enregistrements accompagnant publication, accès en ligne]

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Title: Venda Music: Recorded Examples by John Blacking [enregistrements accompagnant publication, accès en ligne]
Depositor / contributor: Blacking, John
Document status: Published
Recording context: Terrain
Recording period: 1956 - 1963
Year published: 1974
Access type: full

Geographic and cultural informations

States / nations: Afrique du Sud, Province du Limpopo, Soweto
Populations / social groups: Venda

Legal notices

Recordist: Blacking, John
Publisher: - Copie de publication
Publisher reference: BM.1976.014
Bibliographic references: Accès en ligne aux enregistrements collectés et compilés par J. Blacking, publiés en 1974 pour illustrer les deux publications :
Blacking, J. How Musical Is Man? Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973. Xii, 118 pp., with 23 photographs, 25 musical examples, and 12 figures.
Blacking, J. Venda Children's Songs A study in ethnomusicological analysis - Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, 1967. - 210 p., fig., pl., append., index
Les notes du collecteur renvoient aux exemples et pages des ouvrages : HM (How musical is man) ou VC (Venda Children's songs).
Ouvrages consultables à la bibliothèque Eric de Dampierre du LESC. Pas d'exemplaires à la bibliothèque du CREM.
Legal rights: Restreint (enregistrement édité)

Archiving data

Code: CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001
Old code: BM.1976.014.001
Mode of acquisition: Achat (crédit CNRS)
Record author: - Auteur
Comments: Information sur les supports : Copie sur bande magnétique (diamètre 18 cm) d'une cassette audio.
La fiche collection de la copie (cotée BM.1992.009.001) a été supprimée par A. Julien en 2013.
Record writer: Pitoëff, Pribislav
Last modification: Oct. 5, 2013, 2:14 p.m.
Items finished: Oui

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Estimated duration: 00:40:00
Collection size: 0 bytes
Number of components (medium / piece): 1
Number of items: 22
Archive format: Cassette
Digitization: Numérisation interne

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Title Accès en ligne aux enregistrements accompagnant "How musical is man ?" Description Venda Music: Recorded Examples by John Blacking Notes de J. Blacking : "The items on this tape, mostly excerpts from longer recordings, have been selected to complement, not necessarily to duplicate, the musical examples in How Musical Is Man?....Thus alternative or "deviant" versions of songs that are in the book have been included, as well as music that is not in the book. In the following notes, the abbreviation HM stands for How Musical Is Man? ; VC stands for Venda Children's Songs by John Blacking (Johannesburg: Witwaterstrand University Press, 1967)." Notes de l'éditeur "Blacking provided the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives with an audio tape of samples of his own recordings of Venda music to make available for distribution. This music, along with Blacking's accompanying notes, is now available here as streamed audio. " Consulté le 3 octobre 2013 Credits Blacking, John
Title How musical is man ? Description This important study in ethnomusicology is an attempt by the author - a musician who has become a social anthropologist - to compare his experiences of music-making in different cultures. He is here presenting new information resulting from his research into African music, especially among the Venda. Venda music, he discovered is in its way no less complex in structure than European music. Literacy and the invention of nation may generate extended musical structures, but they express differences of degree, and not the difference in kind that is implied by the distinction between ‘art’ and ‘folk’ music. Many, if not all, of music’s essential processes may be found in the constitution of the human body and in patterns of interaction of human bodies in society. Thus all music is structurally, as well as functionally, ‘folk’ music in the sense that music cannot be transmitted of have meaning without associations between people. If John Blacking’s guess about the biological and social origins of music is correct, or even only partly correct, it would generate new ideas about the nature of musicality, the role of music in education and its general role in societies which (like the Venda in the context of their traditional economy) will have more leisure time as automation increases. Credits University of Washington Press
Title Venda Children's Songs A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis Description Présentation de l'ouvrage : "John Blacking is widely recognized for his theoretical works How Musical Is Man? and The Anthropology of the Body. This series of essays and articles on the music of the Venda people of the northern Transvaal in South Africa constitutes his major scholarly legacy. Venda Children's Songs presents a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda. Among its many original contributions is the identifying of the role of melody in generating rhythm, something that distinguishes this form of music from that of Venda adults as well as from other genres of African music in general." Sommaire du livre consultable sur le site de l'éditeur. Consulté le 3 octobre 2013 Credits Blacking, John

Items

Title	Recordist	Location	Year of recording	Code
Tshikona tsha Shakadza 01	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1956	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_001
Nyimbo dza vhana (children’s songs) 02	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1956 - 1960	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_002
Mutshaini 03	Blacking, John	Soweto	1956 - 1960	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_003
Vho-mme vho ya ngafhi? 04	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1957	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_004
Mangovho 05	Blacking, John	Afrique du Sud	1956 - 1960	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_005
Ndo todou fa 06	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1956	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_006
Transformations of tshikona (Ex. 1), the Venda national dance 07	Blacking, John	Afrique du Sud	1956 - 1963	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_007
Instrumental music: wind instruments 08	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1956 - 1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_008
Instrumental music: stringed instruments 09	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1956 - 1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_009
Instrumental music: mbira and xylophone 10	Blacking, John	Afrique du Sud	1956 - 1963	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_010
Story-songs for children (ngano) 11	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_011
Children’s play-songs (dzhombo) 12	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_012
The girls’ play-dance, tshigombela 13	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_013
Music of the girls’ initiation school, sungwi or musevhetho 14	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1957 - 1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_014
A modern school song 15	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_015
A hymn of the Zionist Separatist Churches 16	Blacking, John	Afrique du Sud	1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_016
Music of the possession cult 17	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_017
Songs of the vhusha and tshikanda initiation schools for girls 18	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1957 - 1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_018
The great song of the domba premarital initiation 19	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_019
Learning how to sing pounding songs (mafhuwe) at domba 20	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_020
Two beer songs (malende) 21	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_021
Tshikona tsha Shakadza 22	Blacking, John	Province du Limpopo	1958	CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_022