The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID2708056
AuthorsPercival R Kirby, Percival Kirby
Year2013
Pages432
Publication date2013-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMusical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWits University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18772/12013086055
OpenAlexW2802907725
ISBN9781868146062
Open LibraryOL29721432M
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Percival Kirby was a musician and ethnomusicologist and for many years head of the music department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Between 1923 and 1933 he undertook more than nine expeditions as well as many shorter excursions around South Africa. He was hosted by local chiefs and taught to play the instruments he encountered. He managed to purchase many of them, and this collection, now known as the Kirby Collection, is housed at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. First published as Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa in 1934, the book was the culmination of research trips undertaken by Percival Kirby. It became the standard reference on indigenous South African musical instruments. The bulk of the material is concerned with detailed information on the making and playing of each instrument, and is accompanied by a large number of musical examples. This third edition contains an introduction by Mike Nixon, Head of the Ethnomusicology and African Music at the South African College of Music, and new reproductions of the valuable historic photographs, but leaves Kirby’s original text unchanged

Acoustics · Art · Biology · Geography · Indigenous · Musical · Musical instrument · Physics · Visual arts · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Diverse Musicological Studies · South African History and Culture · Africa · Black People · Blacks · Folk music · Folk music, history and criticism · History and criticism · Indigenes Volk · Indigenous peoples · Music · Musical instruments · Musikinstrument · Pictorial works · San (African people) · South Africa · Ecology

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