Anthropos: Anthropos, 68.1973

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Titel:: Anthropos

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Verlag:: Ed. St. Paul

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1906

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Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Titel:: Anthropos, 68.1973

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1973

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Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 68, 1973, Heft 5-6

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Titel:: Aspects of Tswana Music

Sonstige Person:: Johnston, Thomas F.

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Aspects of Tswana Music Thomas F. Johnston The Tswana 1 of Southern Africa occupy the Eastern Transvaal within the Republic of South Africa, and practically the whole of Botswana; they were among the first Southern African groups to make substantial contact with the northward-trekking farmers, and they have been intensively mis- sionized. This acculturation process is reflected in their music, for indigenous “harmony” at the 8ve, 5th, and 4th is today supplemented with European- type 3rds and 6ths (see Transcription 1). The retention of many Tswana social institutions helps to keep certain musical styles alive, and this is to be seen in the circumcision rituals ; during an ethnomusicological tour of Tswana territory in 1959, Hugh Tracey ob served that “a party of over sixty young men had just completed their period of isolation in the veld ... the singing was the best we experienced from any Tswana group” (Tracey 1959: 65). The present writer, while conducting ethnomusicological investigations among the Tsonga of the Northern Transvaal over a two-year period, encoun tered various Tswana groups in the northeasterly regions, in addition to the many Tswana now resident in South Africa’s urban areas; in many cases the subjects were unable to render a satisfactory performance of even one Tswana traditional song. The most common response was to sing a European-sounding hymn in the Tswana language. Occasionally a reliable informant was encountered, and the following information is the result. The Tswana classify their vocal music (diftina) according to function within various social institutions. Music utilized within the initiation ceremonies, for instance, is known as moama, of which two examples are reproduced here (see Transcriptions 2 and 3). 1 1 A Bantu-speaking Southern African tribe of which there are 1,718,508 members within the Republic of South Africa and 515,000 members within Botswana.

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