Download or read book The Xhosa Ntsomi written by Harold Scheub and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1975 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Xhosa ntsomi (sing. intsomi; pl. iintsomi) is a performing art which has, as its dynamic mainspring, a core-cliché (a song, chant, or saying) which is, during a performance, developed, expanded, detailed, and dramatized before an audience which is itself composed of performers, everyone in a Xhosa society being a potential performer."--Introduction.