Tshianzwane music : the relationship between physical structure and abstractions in cultural progress and change

• Main Author: Mashianoke, Thapedi Shadrack
• Other Authors: Duby, Marc
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Music culture; Extra music culture; Physical structure; Abstractions; Frame of reference; Habitus; Cultural capital; Bodily hexis; Interpenetration; Social web; 780.89963976; Venda (African people) > Music; Ethnomusicology > South Africa
• Online Access: Mashianoke, Thapedi Shadrack (2013) Tshianzwane music : the relationship between physical structure and abstractions in cultural progress and change, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13047>; http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13047

Accompanied DVD with printed record === In this dissertation, I explore music styles from Tshianzwane village in HaMakuya, in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, particularly malende, tshigombela, and children‘s songs. I consider the music styles as embedded in their extra-musical physical structure and abstractions; social rituals; frame of reference; forms of habitus; social order; cultural capital; social meanings, behaviour, power hierarchy, status, space, agency, institutions; formal-informal education and means; symbols; musical instruments; dance; religion; ancestor worship; traditional health practice; norms and values; mentorship and rites of passage. I further explore how and why music performers and other cultural patterns at Tshianzwane interpenetrate with each other and their living space through social roles; demonstration-imitation learning method; enculturation; dialectics of normative-interpretive, embodiment-hexis or cues, internalizationexternalization, surface-deep structure, conscious-unconscious level, qualitativequantitative understanding of music styles and genres and local-foreign context; means of communication; reinterpretation and redefinition of concepts. In conclusion, I consider how people and cultural patterns at Tshianzwane, through interpenetration, form progressing and changing social web; social connections; attachments; trance; state of flux in cultural patterns; synthesis of cultural patterns; embedded contexts; shared culture and resultant cultural patterns. Since cultural patterns, as a result of interpenetration, reflect each other, I point out the challenges in socio-spatial mapping of forms of habitus and cultural patterns. In my dissertation, I use John Blacking‘s work as my primary theoretical framework. Furthermore, I use Pierre Bourdieu‘s theoretical framework, and Hugh Tracey‘s and David Dargie‘s audio CDs on African tribal music to enrich my theoretical ground. I collected my field data at Tshianzwane in collaboration with Joseph Morake and Ignatia Madalane (students), Dr Susan Harrop-Allin (supervisor), Samson Netshifhefhe, Obert Ramashia, Paul Munyai and Musiwalo (informants). === M. Mus. === Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology