Musical Origins

Abstract

First of all, I want to explain my title, for on seeing it in cold print it seemed to me to be a bold title for anyone to take or to dare to discuss Musical Origins. I should perhaps rather have said the “Problem of Musical Origins in Light of the Musical Practices of Bushman, Hottentot Bantu.” I must, however, start with some sort of preamble and propose to begin with a short elementary lesson in South African geography from the point of view of the distribution of the native peoples.