Benin : Bariba and Somba music = Musiques Bariba et Somba.

Format:

• Sound recording

Contributor:

• Arom, Simha.

Series:

• Musiques et musiciens du monde
• Unesco collection
• Musics and musicians of the world = Musiques et musiciens du monde

Language:

• English
• French
• Niger-Kordofanian (Other)

Subjects (All):

• Bariba (African people)--Music.
• Somba (African people)--Music.
• Folk music--Benin.
• Music--Benin.
• Folk songs, Bariba--Benin.
• Folk songs, Somba--Benin.
• Music.
• Folk music.
• Somba (African people).
• Bariba (African people).
• Benin.
• Ethnic music recordings, Bariba--Benin.
• Ethnic music recordings, Somba--Benin.
• Ethnic music recordings--Benin.

Local Subjects:

• Ethnic music recordings, Bariba--Benin.
• Ethnic music recordings, Somba--Benin.
• Ethnic music recordings--Benin.

Genre:

• Sound recordings.
• Folk music.

Physical Description:

• 1 audio disc (43 min., 24 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
• 4 3/4 in.

Edition:

Reissue Auvidis.

Other Title:

• Bariba and Somba music.
• Musiques Bariba et Somba.

Place of Publication:

Gentilly : Auvidis, [1994]

System Details:

• digital
• optical
• 1.4 m/s
• digital recording

Contents:

• Bariba music. Praise song for hunters ; Music played when setting out for a hunt ; Music in praise of Oru Suru ; Sambani, music for dancing ; Taru, music for dancing ; "A poor man has no country"
• Somba music. Dinaba, myth of the origins ; Song for grinding millet ; Musotie, harvest dance ; Funeral lament ; Song to carry the corpse ; Song for grinding karite nuts.

Notes:

• Traditional and ritual songs, narrative, and dance music for royal ceremonies and daily life ; includes some griot performance.
• Field recordings made by Simha Arom.
• Compact disc.
• Re-release of a Unesco recording made by Simha Arom in 1976.
• Booklet (11 p.) containing historical, ethnographic, and program notes, and incipits of some of the texts, both in French and English, in container.

OCLC:

31823905

Publisher Number:

Auvidis D 8057