David K Rycroft
Biographic Data
| ID | 119344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David K Rycroft |
| GIVEN NAMES | David K |
| FAMILY NAME | Rycroft |
| SIGNATURE | RYCROFT D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Black South African urban music since the 1890's: Some reminiscences of Alfred Assegai Kumalo (1879-1966)
The main body of this article deals with personal reminiscences and anecdotes many of them relating to music — recounted to me by the renowned Zulu musician, choir-master and composer, the late Mr A. A. Kumalo during two tape-recorded interviews in Edendale, Natal in 1964. This was some two years before he suffered a stroke (in July 1966) from which he never fully recovered. He died peacefully at his home on 9 December 1966, aged 87
South Africa, Republic of
The Praises of Dingana (Izibongo Zikadingana)
An 1842 version of Dingana's eulogies
Tone-patterns in Zimbabwean Ndebele
Zimbabwean Ndebele and Zulu might be likened, in a very broad sense, to American English and British English, in their relationship. Mzilikazi and his few followers left Zululand in 1822, and in the 1840s founded a new nation, over 1,000 km. to the north. There are certain differences in pronunciation and tone. Divergence is likely to have been bilateral: while Ndebele shows clear signs of non-Zulu influence in certain respects, Zulu on the other…
Tiv Song
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The James Stuart Archive of recorded oral evidence relating to the history of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples
Journal Article The James Stuart Archive of recorded oral evidence relating to the history of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples Get access The James Stuart Archive of recorded oral evidence relating to the history of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples, Vol 1, edited by C. de B. Webb and J. B. Wright. Killie Campbell Africana Library Manuscript Series No. 1. Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1976. xxix+381pp. Index. S.A. Rands 14·40, har…
Southern Bantu Clan-Praises: A Neglected Genre
Very little reference to clan-praises is to be found in general works on African oral literature or in the documentation dealing specifically with literature from southern Africa. By contrast, considerable attention has been paid to panegyric forms of praise-poetry applying to individual human beings (or to an individual animal or object) among the Southern Bantu peoples. Lestrade, writing in 1933, reported that clan-praises were widely employed …
Towards an African Literature: The emergence of literary form in Xhosa
A royal account of music in Zulu life with translation, annotation, and musical transcription
The text presented below has been transcribed from a verbal account given by the Mntwana (Princess) Constance Magogo kaDinuzulu, of the Zulu Royal family. The Princess is the sister of the late Paramount Chief Solomon Maphumuzana Nkayishana, and great-aunt to the present Paramount Chief of the Zulu. Her late husband was Chief Mathole Buthelezi, and her son, Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, is at present Chief Executive Councillor of the kwaZulu…
Zulu, Swazi en Xhosa [instrumentale en vocale muziek]
Venda Children's Songs: A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis
This collection of essays and articles provides a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda people of the northern Transvaal, South Africa. Among the various topics covered is 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. John Blacking (1928-1990) also wrote How …
African Music in Ghana
Zulu and Xhosa praise-poetry and song
The boundary between song and some forms of verse or declamation which are nowadays classified as oral literature is a blurred one and calls for co-operation between linguists and ethnomusicologists. Very little study has yet been made of musical characteristics found in the border-line art of praise-poetry or praise-singing which is practiced very widely throughout Africa. Among the Eastern and South-Eastern Bantu, what small evidence there is r…
Zulu male traditional singing
One of the oddest and loudest forms of African noise to be heard nightly in some of the larger South African towns is described by its makers as ‘Zulu Male Traditional Singing’. This is their polite (and inaccurate) description of it when speaking to non- Zulus. Such singing, by small, all male, choirs and the restrained kind of strutting dance or slouch which goes with it is, however, a new tradition, if the term ‘traditional’ is to be allowed. …
A. M. Jones and L. Kombe: The Icila Dance Old StyleLondon:Longmans, Green & Co., for African Music Society, 1952. 8 s . 6 d
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Tone-patterns in Zimbabwean Ndebele
Zimbabwean Ndebele and Zulu might be likened, in a very broad sense, to American English and British English, in their relationship. Mzilikazi and his few followers left Zululand in 1822, and in the 1840s founded a new nation, over 1,000 km. to the north. There are certain differences in pronunciation and tone. Divergence is likely to have been bilateral: while Ndebele shows clear signs of non-Zulu influence in certain respects, Zulu on the other…
Zulu and Xhosa praise-poetry and song
The boundary between song and some forms of verse or declamation which are nowadays classified as oral literature is a blurred one and calls for co-operation between linguists and ethnomusicologists. Very little study has yet been made of musical characteristics found in the border-line art of praise-poetry or praise-singing which is practiced very widely throughout Africa. Among the Eastern and South-Eastern Bantu, what small evidence there is r…
A royal account of music in Zulu life with translation, annotation, and musical transcription
The text presented below has been transcribed from a verbal account given by the Mntwana (Princess) Constance Magogo kaDinuzulu, of the Zulu Royal family. The Princess is the sister of the late Paramount Chief Solomon Maphumuzana Nkayishana, and great-aunt to the present Paramount Chief of the Zulu. Her late husband was Chief Mathole Buthelezi, and her son, Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, is at present Chief Executive Councillor of the kwaZulu…
Venda Children's Songs: A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis
This collection of essays and articles provides a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda people of the northern Transvaal, South Africa. Among the various topics covered is 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. John Blacking (1928-1990) also wrote How …
Zulu male traditional singing
One of the oddest and loudest forms of African noise to be heard nightly in some of the larger South African towns is described by its makers as ‘Zulu Male Traditional Singing’. This is their polite (and inaccurate) description of it when speaking to non- Zulus. Such singing, by small, all male, choirs and the restrained kind of strutting dance or slouch which goes with it is, however, a new tradition, if the term ‘traditional’ is to be allowed. …
Southern Bantu Clan-Praises: A Neglected Genre
Very little reference to clan-praises is to be found in general works on African oral literature or in the documentation dealing specifically with literature from southern Africa. By contrast, considerable attention has been paid to panegyric forms of praise-poetry applying to individual human beings (or to an individual animal or object) among the Southern Bantu peoples. Lestrade, writing in 1933, reported that clan-praises were widely employed …
A. M. Jones and L. Kombe: The Icila Dance Old StyleLondon:Longmans, Green & Co., for African Music Society, 1952. 8 s . 6 d
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Zulu male traditional singing
One of the oddest and loudest forms of African noise to be heard nightly in some of the larger South African towns is described by its makers as ‘Zulu Male Traditional Singing’. This is their polite (and inaccurate) description of it when speaking to non- Zulus. Such singing, by small, all male, choirs and the restrained kind of strutting dance or slouch which goes with it is, however, a new tradition, if the term ‘traditional’ is to be allowed. …
Zulu and Xhosa praise-poetry and song
The boundary between song and some forms of verse or declamation which are nowadays classified as oral literature is a blurred one and calls for co-operation between linguists and ethnomusicologists. Very little study has yet been made of musical characteristics found in the border-line art of praise-poetry or praise-singing which is practiced very widely throughout Africa. Among the Eastern and South-Eastern Bantu, what small evidence there is r…
African Music in Ghana
Venda Children's Songs: A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis
This collection of essays and articles provides a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda people of the northern Transvaal, South Africa. Among the various topics covered is 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. John Blacking (1928-1990) also wrote How …
Zulu, Swazi en Xhosa [instrumentale en vocale muziek]
Towards an African Literature: The emergence of literary form in Xhosa
A royal account of music in Zulu life with translation, annotation, and musical transcription
The text presented below has been transcribed from a verbal account given by the Mntwana (Princess) Constance Magogo kaDinuzulu, of the Zulu Royal family. The Princess is the sister of the late Paramount Chief Solomon Maphumuzana Nkayishana, and great-aunt to the present Paramount Chief of the Zulu. Her late husband was Chief Mathole Buthelezi, and her son, Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, is at present Chief Executive Councillor of the kwaZulu…
Southern Bantu Clan-Praises: A Neglected Genre
Very little reference to clan-praises is to be found in general works on African oral literature or in the documentation dealing specifically with literature from southern Africa. By contrast, considerable attention has been paid to panegyric forms of praise-poetry applying to individual human beings (or to an individual animal or object) among the Southern Bantu peoples. Lestrade, writing in 1933, reported that clan-praises were widely employed …
The James Stuart Archive of recorded oral evidence relating to the history of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples
Journal Article The James Stuart Archive of recorded oral evidence relating to the history of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples Get access The James Stuart Archive of recorded oral evidence relating to the history of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples, Vol 1, edited by C. de B. Webb and J. B. Wright. Killie Campbell Africana Library Manuscript Series No. 1. Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1976. xxix+381pp. Index. S.A. Rands 14·40, har…
Tiv Song
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Tone-patterns in Zimbabwean Ndebele
Zimbabwean Ndebele and Zulu might be likened, in a very broad sense, to American English and British English, in their relationship. Mzilikazi and his few followers left Zululand in 1822, and in the 1840s founded a new nation, over 1,000 km. to the north. There are certain differences in pronunciation and tone. Divergence is likely to have been bilateral: while Ndebele shows clear signs of non-Zulu influence in certain respects, Zulu on the other…
An 1842 version of Dingana's eulogies
The Praises of Dingana (Izibongo Zikadingana)
South Africa, Republic of
Black South African urban music since the 1890's: Some reminiscences of Alfred Assegai Kumalo (1879-1966)
The main body of this article deals with personal reminiscences and anecdotes many of them relating to music — recounted to me by the renowned Zulu musician, choir-master and composer, the late Mr A. A. Kumalo during two tape-recorded interviews in Edendale, Natal in 1964. This was some two years before he suffered a stroke (in July 1966) from which he never fully recovered. He died peacefully at his home on 9 December 1966, aged 87
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