The dance music in this Bulawayo beer hall in Southern Rhodesia is furnished, at the moment, by a manufactured guitar. Home-made versions of string instruments are more common. Almost inevitably, there are also drums.
Photograph
The dance music in this Bulawayo beer hall in Southern Rhodesia is furnished, at the moment, by a manufactured guitar. Home-made versions of string instruments are more common. Almost inevitably, there are also drums.
From The Great Tribes of Africa
1957
Gelatin silver print
Image: 26.5 x 34 cm
Mount: 28 x 35.5 cm
Gift of Mrs. Nickolas Muray
Inscriptions verso (typed label, crossed out):
No beer saloon in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, is complete without musicians to foster the dance. The guitarist, self-taught, seems amused by one of the gyrating couples. His companion wistfully wonders how one goes about dating that luscious item in the red dress.
verso (typed label):
The dance music in this Bulawayo beer hall in Southern Rhodesia is furnished, at the moment, by a manufactured guitar. Home-made versions of string instruments are more common. Almost inevitably, there are also drums.
verso (stamp): Photo by Muray / Mrs. Nickolas Muray / 2401 River Road / Pt. Pleasant New Jersey
verso, label (stamp): Photo by Muray / Mrs. Nickolas Muray / 333 E. 49th St. - 6B / New York 17, N.Y.
No beer saloon in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, is complete without musicians to foster the dance. The guitarist, self-taught, seems amused by one of the gyrating couples. His companion wistfully wonders how one goes about dating that luscious item in the red dress.
verso (typed label):
The dance music in this Bulawayo beer hall in Southern Rhodesia is furnished, at the moment, by a manufactured guitar. Home-made versions of string instruments are more common. Almost inevitably, there are also drums.
verso (stamp): Photo by Muray / Mrs. Nickolas Muray / 2401 River Road / Pt. Pleasant New Jersey
verso, label (stamp): Photo by Muray / Mrs. Nickolas Muray / 333 E. 49th St. - 6B / New York 17, N.Y.
