The Kwanongoma College of African Music (A branch of the Rhodesian Academy of Music) Newsletter - June, 1964
Abstract
- Abstract
- Africans almost invariably prefer Western culture — Western dress, manners, usages and speech — to their own. Western culture is associated with economic advantage as well as with status. But this preference places the African in a dilemma. He has a seemingly desperate choice of becoming a forlorn imitator of the Whites or of retaining his African identity and abandoning all the symbols of progress. It goes without saying that African songs should be preserved and African singing cultivated, especially of the kind that Miss Makeba has made so popular overseas. The handicap here is that singing is apt to have tribal significance and to promote tribal rivalries. To counter this there will have to be built up a sense of inter-tribal pride in the achievements of the great African “stars.”
Description
- Description
- pages: 117-118
Subjects
People & roles
- Author
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Williamson, Leslie
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- Is Part Of
- Kwanongomo College, Bulawayo
Origins & context
- Title
- The Kwanongoma College of African Music (A branch of the Rhodesian Academy of Music) Newsletter - June, 1964
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Created Date
- June 20, 1964
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0108
- Identifier
-
1045
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 76824