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Cameroon = Cameroun.
Streaming audio Available online
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- Sound recording
- Series:
- Smithsonian Global Sound.
- Musiques et musiciens du monde
- Language:
- English
- French
- Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Baka (West African people)--Cameroon--Music.
- Baka (West African people).
- Folk songs, Baka (Cameroon and Gabon).
- Cameroon.
- Genre:
- Folk music.
- Music.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (48 minutes).
- Other Title:
- Cameroon : Baka Pygmy music
- Cameroun : la musique des pygmées baka
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Audivis-UNESCO, 1990.
- Language Note:
- Sung in Baka.
- Contents:
- Music for the buma dance (4:49)
- Hut song (4:52)
- "Orycterope and Pangolin", sung-fable (4:04)
- Song for gathering mushrooms (2:40)
- Song to attract game (2:29)
- Music for the nganga dance (4:45)
- Lullaby (4:49)
- The water drum (4:17)
- The humming of the bees (7:47)
- Music for the buma dance (6:22).
- Participant:
- Various performers.
- Notes:
- Streaming audio files.
- Includes PDF of liner notes in English with French translation.
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 03, 2016).
- Recorded at the Aba encampment near Kongulu village, Cameroon, Feb., 1975.
- Other Format:
- Original cat. no.: UNES08029
- OCLC:
- 950026252
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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