The Modern Evolution of Southern African Music An illustrated talk by PERCIVAL R. KIRBY
Emeritus Professor of Music, Witwatersrand University
' When the missionaries arrived in South Africa they found themselves faced with severe difficulties, musically no less than spiritually.' Professor Kirby has found it possible to illustrate Bantu music as it must have sounded just over 100 years ago; and shows the profound changes which followed the introduction to hymns in four-part harmony and. later, to European dance music. Is the way lost, he asks. to a modern music which is truly African?
