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Venda Children's Songs A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis
by Blacking, John
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- ISBN-13: 9780226055114
- ISBN: 0226055116
- Publication Date: 1995
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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John Blacking is widely recognized for his theoretical worksHow Musical Is Man'andThe 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 Songspresents 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.Blacking, John is the author of 'Venda Children's Songs A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis', published 1995 under ISBN 9780226055114 and ISBN 0226055116.
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