1. Apply John Blacking's ethnographic material on Venda girls' initiation to a particular anthropological/ethnomusicological theoretical perspective. Possible questions that could be addressed include:
2. What does John Blacking's material on Venda girls' initiation schools reveal about his fieldwork methods? 3. In the chapter 'Venda Music' of this website/CD-Rom, Blacking outlines his method of 'cultural analysis of music', and applies it to the songs of vhusha and tshikanda. Choose a song from the domba repertoire, and apply the analytic technique to it. If you choose a song that is not in the 'key' of C it is wise to begin by transposing it. 4. Apply the Venda 'rules' for the relationship between speech-tones and melodic contour to one or more songs of vhusha.
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