The social and ceremonial music of the Pedi
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1958
Authors
Huskisson, Yvonne
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Abstract
The tribes that fall under the Northern Sotho or Pedi language group
are found in the area more or less bounded by Middelburg, Pilgrims Rest,
Malopene, the Blaauwberg and Hamanskraal .
No print can adequately describe the vital panorama of Pedi life.
In surveying the musical practices of the Pedi I soon realised that their
music was not an isolated entity but an integral unit of their whole
pattern of living, both socially and ceremonially. It is from this
essentially ' alive' standpoint, rather than as a scientific analysis of
scale systems, etc., that I approached the subject of Pedi music. [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version]
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Arts, School of Music,1958