Browsing Other Africana by Author "Kruger, Jaco"

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    • The flamboyant rooster and other Tshivenda song stories 

      Le Roux, Ina; Kruger, Jaco; Coetzer, Deon (New Gauteng Printers, 2007)
      Ngano are song stories of precolonial origin told by the Tshivenda-speaking people of South Africa. There are various reasons why they deserve a larger audience. Like folklore elsewhere, they are ancient artistic maps of ...

    • The girls in the baobab : Venda stories from the Limpopo Valley 

      Kruger, Jaco; Mavhetha, Mathuvhelo; Mashau, Tshifhiwa (Potchefstroom, South Africa : School of Music, North-West University, 2014)
      The primary purpose of this collection of stories is the documenting of a waning oral narrative practice. Because the stories are integral to a culture-specific symbolic system, it is necessary that their meanings should ...

    • Venda ḽashu : Tshivenda songs, musical games and song stories 

      Kruger, Jaco (Potchefstroom, South Africa : Northwest University, School of Music, 2004)
      The songs, musical games and song stories in this book originate from two sources. The first is a collection of songs I accumulated from 1983-1994 among Tshivenda-speaking people living in South Africa’s Limpopo Province. ...

    • Venda ngano narratives. Dialogues between past and present 

      Kruger, Jaco; Mavhetha, Mathuvhelo; Masase, Pfananani; Mashau, Tsh; Ndou, Tshilidzi; Le Roux, Ina (2021)
      The annotated ngano song-story narratives in this book were collected in Niani, South Africa's Limpopo valley, from 2009 to 2016. Their discussion is situated at the intersection of history, ethnography, narratology and ...