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Zulu and Xhosa praise-poetry and song

Article: English. Bibliographic reference
Author(s)
Rycroft, D
Title
Zulu and Xhosa praise-poetry and song
In
African music, 3, 1, 1962, 79-85
Subjects
Izibongo ; South Africa
Type of material
Article
ISBN / ISSN
0065-4019
States 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. Questions whether or not Izibongo recitations should be regarded as a species of song as the sequence of pitches is certainly not a free, musically determined melody