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Abagungu (Field Card)
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Tunes, like the bosun's piping in the navy, which drum and pipe the Mukama as he leaves his Kikale (house) to go his rounds or visit the Council Chamber or Court. The Nsegu pipes are made in two sections and joined together by binding with hide, or iguana skin which is shrunk or bound onto the two halves.
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Bedouin Music of Southern Sinai
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produced by Amnon Shiloah (Folkways Records, 1978), 47 mins

When this recording was made, the Bedouin of Southern Sinai were striving to maintain their semi-nomadic ways of life in a changing world. This selection provides a valuable record of and insight into their repertory of archaic poetry, songs and dances, as well as more popular tunes.

produced by Amnon Shiloah (Folkways Records, 1978), 47 mins
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Boyoka Malinga I (Field Card)
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This tune is also an attempt to transpose a popular guitar tune well-known in S. Congo and elsewhere onto the Likembe (Mbira) of the district or vice versa. This is made possible by the fact that locally the Bira tribe uses a "heptatonic" scale.
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Boyoka Malinga I (Track)
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This tune is also an attempt to transpose a popular guitar tune well-known in S. Congo and elsewhere onto the Likembe (Mbira) of the district or vice versa. This is made possible by the fact that locally the Bira tribe uses a "heptatonic" scale.
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Boyoka Malinga II (short version) (Field Card)
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As it is not certain whether the guitar or the Likembe version is the original "Boyoka malinga," a short extract of the guitar song is included here for reference. It was recorded in the southern Congo over a thousand miles south, six months previously. It can be heard in full on the I.L.A.M. Music of Africa seri...
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Boyoka Malinga II (short version) (Track)
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As it is not certain whether the guitar or the Likembe version is the original "Boyoka malinga," a short extract of the guitar song is included here for reference. It was recorded in the southern Congo over a thousand miles south, six months previously. It can be heard in full on the I.L.A.M. Music of Africa seri...
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