Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical Traditions In Africa

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

william romsay wrote:
> Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical 
> Traditions In Africa
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> African music is the music of Africans who live in a large region of 50 
> nations, each with a special culture, history and language, South of 
> Sahara. Zulu musical instruments are part of this multilingual culture. 
> African music has some distinct characteristics: the use of repetition 
> is one of them. Another important characteristic is the polyphony; this 
> is the combination of different musical parts played simultaneously.
> 
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1. Interesting ... can you post some links?

2. I think it's time the OLPC project had a list specific to audio on 
the XO and the "world music" aspects of it. Does someone on the project 
want to create such a list in the main MailMan area, or should I go 
ahead and start a Google group on the subject?