Music from the villages of northeastern Nigeria.

Format Audio (Streaming)
Publication Info[Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Folkways, ℗2001.
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?GLMU;71900
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Contents Disc 1. Music of the Bura people: Bura praise singing (9:55) ; Bura dance music (3:19) ; Bura praise singer (2:38) ; Bura praise singer (2:13) ; Bura dance band (1:41) ; Bura dance band (1:22) -- Music of the Ga'anda people: Ga'anda flute band (3:06) ; Ga'anda xylophone band (2:30) -- Music of the Bolewa people: Bolewa horns (0:32) ; Bolewa horns with singing and drums (1:44) ; Bolewa dance, Jabalwa (1:58) ; Bolewa dance, Jakkutu (1:47) ; Bolewa dance with hausa drumming (5:09) ; Bolewa singing, Babunare (2:16) -- Disc 2. Music of the Tangale people: Tangale war dance, Latang music (2:23) ; Tangale war dance, Latang music (3:12) ; Tangale war dance, Bid-Bid music (2:09) ; Tangale dance sung by women (3:54) ; Tangale banjo music (2:48) ; Tangale praise singing with one-string fiddle (2:02) ; Hausa court music (3:48) -- Music of the Tera people: Tera dance, Bonsuwe (4:41) ; Tera dry season dance, Ngudi (2:43) ; Tera funeral dance, Gamto (2:08) ; Tera xylophone music (3:17) ; Tera Bonsuwe sing with two xylophones (3:15) ; Tera dance with two xylophones, Sapar Kwada (2:34) ; Tera walking dance, Leo-Leo (1:56) ; Tera dance, Gwarde (2:47) ; Fulani Garaya band (3: 17) ; Tera dance, Bayamina (4:41).
General notePreviously issued as compact discs.
General notePreviously released in 1971 as analog recording (Asch Records AHM 4532).
General noteProgram notes ([16] p. : ill.) included.
General noteSmithsonian Folkways: AHM 4532AB, AHM 4532CD (on original containers: F-4532).
Performer Performed by various local musicians.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecordings made in Northeastern Nigeria, Fall 1969, by Paul Newman, Eric and Lyn Davidson.
LanguageSung in Hausa.

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