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Instrumental music of the Kalahari San.

Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 32830
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Format:
Sound recording
Contributor:
England, Nicholas M.
Shostak, Marjorie, 1945-1996.
Biesele, Megan.
Series:
Custom compact disc series
Subjects (All):
!Kung (African people)--Music.
!Kung (African people).
Folk music--Botswana.
Folk music.
Music--Botswana.
Music.
Folk music--Namibia.
Music--Namibia.
Namibia.
Botswana.
Genre:
Sound recordings.
Folk music.
Physical Description:
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
4 3/4 in.
Place of Publication:
[Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Folkways, [2001]
System Details:
digital
optical
1.4 m/s
digital recording
Contents:
Gut pluriarc with 3 men's voices (2:36)
Metal pluriarc with one woman's voice (3:31)
Gut hunting bow solo (2:01)
Gut hunting bow with one man's voice (3:08)
Gut hunting bow with resonator and one man's voice (2:43)
Sitengena with one man's voice (7:00)
Te bow with two women's voices (3:03)
Tin can bow solo (1:44)
Rain song : sitengena solo (1:16)
Sitengena with one man's voice (2:20)
Gut pluriarc with one man's voice (3:51)
Metal pluriarc with one woman's voice (2:05)
Gut hunting bow with one man's voice (2:39).
Notes:
Smithsonian Folkways: FE 4315 (on container: F-4315).
Music of the!Kung San people of northeastern Namibia and northwestern Botswana; some singing in the!Xu language.
Recorded in northwestern Botswana by Nicholas England (1951-55) and by Marjorie Shostak and Megan Biesele (1969-72).
Previously released in 1982 as analog recording (Folkways FE 4315).
Compact disc.
Descriptive notes in English and partial song texts with English translations (4 p. : ill.) in container.
OCLC:
77818993
Publisher Number:
FE 4315 Smithsonian Folkways
F-4315 Smithsonian Folkways

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