The Kwela Project
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Description: Pennywhistle Jive from South Africa - from playing kwela to learning about music and culture in township South Africa
The Kwela Project - Pennywhistle Jive from South Africa Pennywhistle jive from South Africa Whilst researching the music of . The musician was Dela Botri, and the whistle was the . Atenteben is a bamboo fipple flute from Ghana; it was previously used in funeral ritual music, but back in the 50s was adapted to the diatonic scale and popularised with a wider repertoire. Musicologist and composer Dr. Ephraim Amu was important in this process, and it seems as if atenteben may have even adopted a place in school music that the recorder did in the UK.
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