Bayaka Shorts - Bayaka boyobi music and dance (1).

Format:

Video

Series:

Film ; Box 100000 ; Folder 100696

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa.

Cultural anthropology.

Musical instruments.

Music.

Singing.

Dance and dancing.

Central African Republic.

Local Subjects:

Africa.

Cultural anthropology.

Musical instruments.

Music.

Singing.

Dance and dancing.

Central African Republic.

Genre:

Archival footage

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers Museum, [date of publication not identified]

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Drawn to the rainforests of the Central African Republic by some of the most beautiful singing in the world, New Jersey native Louis Sarno travelled there in 1985 with a one-way ticket, a tape recorder and plenty of batteries. Nearly thirty years later he continues to live with a Bayaka community in and around Yandoumbé, a settlement that he helped found. Ethnomusicologist Noel Lobley has been in contact with Louis for the last eight years, working through his unprecedented collection of over 1000 hours of recordings that document the full range of music-­making and soundscapes of a single community of hunter gatherers for more than a generation. Louis continues to donate his recordings, images, and videos to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, with the long­term intention that his archive will benefit the Bayaka communities.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed October 15, 2021).