Item : The girls’ play-dance, tshigombela 13

Geographic and cultural informations

Location

Province du Limpopo

Population / social group

Venda

Ethnographic context

The girls’ play-dance, tshigombela. Three excerpts from a 20-minute performance by girls from Magidi, led by Tshidavhula Vhuromu at Tshivhambe, while on bepha musical expedition in 1958: (a) shortly after the beginning of the song Nne ro betsha, leg rattles are audible as the girls dance round in a circle; (b) the pitch has risen, and the chorus sounds different after about 10 minutes; (c) the whistles are blown energetically by girls who come out to dance in pairs and threes, and the end of the dance is signaled by an iambic beat on the drum. See HM, illus. following p. 18. (3:10)

Musical informations

Archiving data

Code

CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_013

Original code

BM.1976.014.001:01-13

Item number

13

Remarks

Last modification

Oct. 5, 2013, 2:25 p.m.