MUS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Zulu Language, C Melody Saxophone, Yodeling
30 Nov 2018
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Voices: bass, alto, one leading voice, piano guitar, banjo, sat and 3 bass singers. Timbre: a was falsetto (pure), b was more raspy. Other: sung in vocables, not zulu language, melody different from original, dynamics drop in the middle, soprano yodelling, c melody is repeated. 1950s south african pop music: swaziland by the transvaal rockin" jazz stars, siyahamba by the flying jazz queens. Scholarship: music journalism, opinionated, strong authorial attitude (weavers played drek , may contain careless assumptions (claims the c solo was improvised, which. Isicathamiya: stepping like a cat: genre of music in 1930s urban south africa. How was it marketed: few black radio programs in 1939 johannesburg. 1952 wimoweh is released, but soon the weavers are accused of being communist sympathizers. Wimoweh : the weavers disappear, but their arrangement of wimoweh is recorded by many artists from a variety of genres.
