African space/time concepts and the Tusona ideographs in Luchazi culture
Abstract
- Abstract
- Tusona ideographs and amadinda compositions are not merely 'art' or 'music' in the Western sense. They are little closed systems of functional and causal relationships, little universes without exits. The minds who created them must have been researchers in the basic sense of the word. By creating the self-contained mini-universes of these configurations they also created mini-replicas of what our macro-universe may ultimately be like. They discovered abstract relationships which are not man-made, which come about and exist without human deliberation. And it must have become an immense passion once these ancients were on the track of such discoveries. The infinite proliferations in both traditions are proof enough of a persevering experimental spirit behind them.
Description
- Description
- pages: 53-89
Subjects
- Subject
- African Music
People & roles
- Author
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Kubik, Gerhard
Value Annotations
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna
Origins & context
- Title
- African space/time concepts and the Tusona ideographs in Luchazi culture
- 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
- July 21, 1987
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-024a
- Identifier
-
1261
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 79514