David Rycroft
Biographic Data
| ID | 75797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Rycroft |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Rycroft |
| SIGNATURE | RYCROFT D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Black South African urban music since the 1890's
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
Professor Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal (1919–1990)
The Zulu bow songs of Princess Magogo
The Mntwana (Princess) Constance Magogo kaDinuzulu has for a great many years been recognised as the greatest living authority on Zulu music, besides being an expert performer without peer. Her vast repertoire of traditional Zulu songs extends back as far as the eighteenth century and she is herself a prolific composer. Her favourite instrument is the large ugubhu musical bow, used for self-accompanied singing, and she appears to be the last rema…
Zulu, Swazi en Xhosa [instrumentale en vocale muziek]
Venda Children's Songs
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 …
The Anthropology of Music
African Music in Ghana
The guitar improvisation of Mwenda Jean Bosco (Part II)
Three of Mwenda Jean Bosco's earliest recorded pieces, Bombalaka and two versions of Masanga, recorded in Jadotville, Katanga, by Mr. Hugh Tracey in 1952, were considered in part I of this article. Ten more of Bosco's recorded guitar-songs will be considered here. Since Part I went to press I have still had no definite news of Bosco's present whereabouts apart from hearsay evidence from a Northern Rhodesian Bosco-fan who believes that Bosco is no…
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…
English–Zulu Dictionary. Compiled by C. M. Doke, D. McK. Malcolm, and J. M. A. Sikakana. Johannesburg
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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. …
The Zulu bow songs of Princess Magogo
The Mntwana (Princess) Constance Magogo kaDinuzulu has for a great many years been recognised as the greatest living authority on Zulu music, besides being an expert performer without peer. Her vast repertoire of traditional Zulu songs extends back as far as the eighteenth century and she is herself a prolific composer. Her favourite instrument is the large ugubhu musical bow, used for self-accompanied singing, and she appears to be the last rema…
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…
Venda Children's Songs
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. …
The guitar improvisation of Mwenda Jean Bosco (Part II)
Three of Mwenda Jean Bosco's earliest recorded pieces, Bombalaka and two versions of Masanga, recorded in Jadotville, Katanga, by Mr. Hugh Tracey in 1952, were considered in part I of this article. Ten more of Bosco's recorded guitar-songs will be considered here. Since Part I went to press I have still had no definite news of Bosco's present whereabouts apart from hearsay evidence from a Northern Rhodesian Bosco-fan who believes that Bosco is no…
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. …
English–Zulu Dictionary. Compiled by C. M. Doke, D. McK. Malcolm, and J. M. A. Sikakana. Johannesburg
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
The guitar improvisation of Mwenda Jean Bosco (Part II)
Three of Mwenda Jean Bosco's earliest recorded pieces, Bombalaka and two versions of Masanga, recorded in Jadotville, Katanga, by Mr. Hugh Tracey in 1952, were considered in part I of this article. Ten more of Bosco's recorded guitar-songs will be considered here. Since Part I went to press I have still had no definite news of Bosco's present whereabouts apart from hearsay evidence from a Northern Rhodesian Bosco-fan who believes that Bosco is no…
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
The Anthropology of Music
Venda Children's Songs
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]
The Zulu bow songs of Princess Magogo
The Mntwana (Princess) Constance Magogo kaDinuzulu has for a great many years been recognised as the greatest living authority on Zulu music, besides being an expert performer without peer. Her vast repertoire of traditional Zulu songs extends back as far as the eighteenth century and she is herself a prolific composer. Her favourite instrument is the large ugubhu musical bow, used for self-accompanied singing, and she appears to be the last rema…
Professor Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal (1919–1990)
Black South African urban music since the 1890's
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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