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Puberty Song
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produced by Moses Asch, 1905-1986 and Cornel Wilde, 1912-1989; in African Music from the Film - The Naked Prey (Folkways Records, 1966), 2 mins
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produced by Moses Asch, 1905-1986 and Cornel Wilde, 1912-1989; in African Music from the Film - The Naked Prey (Folkways Records, 1966), 2 mins
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Bambuti - Alima Song
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produced by Mieczyslaw Kolinski, 1901-1981; in Dahomey Suite for Oboe and Piano Based on Seven Documentary Dahomey Songs: With Documentary Recordings (Folkways Records, 1959), 2 mins

Mieczyslaw Kolinski considers Dahomey Suite to be a stylistic experiment in which he blends West African musical style with the tonal music of the western tradition. Dahomey, now Benin, has a rich musical tradition based in vocal technique that Kolinski translates into beautiful oboe melodies, played by Lois Wa...

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produced by Mieczyslaw Kolinski, 1901-1981; in Dahomey Suite for Oboe and Piano Based on Seven Documentary Dahomey Songs: With Documentary Recordings (Folkways Records, 1959), 2 mins
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Music from Petauke of Northern Rhodesia, Vol. 1
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produced by Raymond J. Apthorpe and John Blacking, 1928-1990 (Folkways Records, 1962), 38 mins

From beer songs to work songs and lullabies—and much in between—here is music from the Nsenga people of Petauke, in what is now called Zambia. Renowned ethnomusicologist John Blacking collected these recordings and contributed to the liner notes with anthropologist Raymond Thorpe, who writes about Nsenga history...

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produced by Raymond J. Apthorpe and John Blacking, 1928-1990 (Folkways Records, 1962), 38 mins
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