Author: Harold Scheub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
"The Xhosa ntsomi (sing. intsomi; pl. iintsomi) is a performing art which has, as its dynamic mainspring, a core-cliché (a song, chant, or saying) which is, during a performance, developed, expanded, detailed, and dramatized before an audience which is itself composed of performers, everyone in a Xhosa society being a potential performer."--Introduction.
The Xhosa Ntsomi
Author: Harold Scheub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
"The Xhosa ntsomi (sing. intsomi; pl. iintsomi) is a performing art which has, as its dynamic mainspring, a core-cliché (a song, chant, or saying) which is, during a performance, developed, expanded, detailed, and dramatized before an audience which is itself composed of performers, everyone in a Xhosa society being a potential performer."--Introduction.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
"The Xhosa ntsomi (sing. intsomi; pl. iintsomi) is a performing art which has, as its dynamic mainspring, a core-cliché (a song, chant, or saying) which is, during a performance, developed, expanded, detailed, and dramatized before an audience which is itself composed of performers, everyone in a Xhosa society being a potential performer."--Introduction.
The Xhosa Ntsomi
Author: Harold Scheub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
"The Xhosa ntsomi (sing. intsomi; pl. iintsomi) is a performing art which has, as its dynamic mainspring, a core-cliché (a song, chant, or saying) which is, during a performance, developed, expanded, detailed, and dramatized before an audience which is itself composed of performers, everyone in a Xhosa society being a potential performer."--Introduction.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
"The Xhosa ntsomi (sing. intsomi; pl. iintsomi) is a performing art which has, as its dynamic mainspring, a core-cliché (a song, chant, or saying) which is, during a performance, developed, expanded, detailed, and dramatized before an audience which is itself composed of performers, everyone in a Xhosa society being a potential performer."--Introduction.
The Ntsomi: Xhosa texts with English translations (Perfs. 1-52)
Author: Harold Scheub
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk drama, Xhosa
Languages : en
Pages : 2022
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk drama, Xhosa
Languages : en
Pages : 2022
Book Description
The World and the Word
Author: Nongenile M. Zenani
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299133133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
A master storyteller of the Xhosa people of South Africa, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani gives us an unprecedented view of an oral society from within. Twenty-four of her complex and beautiful tales about birth, puberty, marriage, and work, as told to the renowned collector of African oral tradition, Harold Scheub, are gathered here. Accompanying the stories are Zenani’s detailed commentaries and analyses and Scheub’s striking photographs of her in performance. The combination of these historical and cultural observations with a richly symbolic collection of tales from a single traditional storyteller make The World and the Word a remarkable document. “The storyteller’s materials are simple,” Zenani told Scheub, “the world, and the word.” She presents to us the entire world of the Xhosa people, how they first came to be, the origins of their customs, how they order their world and deal with transgressors, how they manage all of life’s transitions from birth to death. She depicts both the world as it exists and as it is shaped in the words of the storyteller. Inheriting tales from the Xhosa tradition, Zenani has transformed them into imaginative new stories marked by her own artistry. Scheub’s introduction to The World and the Word discusses Xhosa oral tradition and Zenani’s particular characteristics as an artist within that tradition; Zenani’s personal history and her work as both a storyteller and a healer; and Scheub’s friendship with her and his role in recording her legacy.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299133133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
A master storyteller of the Xhosa people of South Africa, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani gives us an unprecedented view of an oral society from within. Twenty-four of her complex and beautiful tales about birth, puberty, marriage, and work, as told to the renowned collector of African oral tradition, Harold Scheub, are gathered here. Accompanying the stories are Zenani’s detailed commentaries and analyses and Scheub’s striking photographs of her in performance. The combination of these historical and cultural observations with a richly symbolic collection of tales from a single traditional storyteller make The World and the Word a remarkable document. “The storyteller’s materials are simple,” Zenani told Scheub, “the world, and the word.” She presents to us the entire world of the Xhosa people, how they first came to be, the origins of their customs, how they order their world and deal with transgressors, how they manage all of life’s transitions from birth to death. She depicts both the world as it exists and as it is shaped in the words of the storyteller. Inheriting tales from the Xhosa tradition, Zenani has transformed them into imaginative new stories marked by her own artistry. Scheub’s introduction to The World and the Word discusses Xhosa oral tradition and Zenani’s particular characteristics as an artist within that tradition; Zenani’s personal history and her work as both a storyteller and a healer; and Scheub’s friendship with her and his role in recording her legacy.
The Ntsomi
Author: Harold Scheub
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk drama, Xhosa
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk drama, Xhosa
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The Ntsomi
Author: H. E. Scheub
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The ntsomi
Author: Harold Ernest Scheub
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The ntsomi
Author: Harold E Scheub
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Ntsomi
Author: Harold Scheub
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages :
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Xhosa Poets and Poetry
Author: Jeff Opland
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9780864864208
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Xhosa oral poetry has defied the threats to its integrity over two centuries, to take its place in a free South Africa. This volume establishes the background to this poetic re-emergence, preserving and transmitting the voice of the Xhosa poet.
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9780864864208
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Xhosa oral poetry has defied the threats to its integrity over two centuries, to take its place in a free South Africa. This volume establishes the background to this poetic re-emergence, preserving and transmitting the voice of the Xhosa poet.