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Acknowledgments
Firstly we wish to thank Zureena Blacking and her family for their support of
the project, and for granting permission to use John Blacking's research material; The Society for Ethnomusicology, for permitting the use of footage from their video re-make of Blacking's film, 'Domba'; Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa, for permitting the
reproduction of "Songs, Dances, Mimes and Symbolism of Venda Girls' Initiation
Schools," African Studies, vol. 28(1-4), 1969; and for permitting the
reproduction of selected sections from Venda Chidlren's Songs: A Study in Ethnomusicological
Analysis, 1967; The Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology of South Africa, for permitting
the reproduction of "Initiation and the Balance of Power: the Tshikanda Girls'
Initiation School of the Venda of the Northern Transvaal," in Ethnological
and Linguistic Studies in Honour of N J van Warmelo (Ethnological Publications
52), pp. 31-38. Pretoria: Department of Bantu Administration and Development, 1969; The University of Illinois Press, for permitting the reproduction of "Tonal Organization in the Music of Two Venda Initiation Schools," Ethnomusicology 14(1):1-54, 1970; Cambridge Universtity Press for permitting the reproduction of pages 80 to 87
of "Movement, Dance, Music, and Venda girls' Initiation Cycle," in P. Spencer,
ed., Society and the Dance, pp. 64-91, 1985; Many other people also contributed to this production. In particular, we wish to thank: John Baily, Alan Bicker, Hazel Bland, Hastings Donnan, Peter Parkes, Elizabeth Tonkin and Phyllis Whiteside.
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