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Bazungu banashindana Malindi (Field Card)
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The Gonda was danced by a small group of dark skinned boys and girls who were dressed in the equivalent of the ballet dancers 'Tutu', a short multiple skirt made of banana stalk fibres which exaggerated every movement of the hips. It was one of the most pleasing and attractive dance displays by child dancers in th...
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Bazungu banashindana Malindi (Track)
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The Gonda was danced by a small group of dark skinned boys and girls who were dressed in the equivalent of the ballet dancers 'Tutu', a short multiple skirt made of banana stalk fibres which exaggerated every movement of the hips. It was one of the most pleasing and attractive dance displays by child dancers in th...
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Benu (Track)
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"What am I going to tell them? Where am I going to complain? I am singing like a church organ." Benu is the name of a jumping action in the dance. This instrument was particularly well played and well made of its kind. The one stringed lute appears to come from the upper Nile and has not been found south of Nyasal...
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Bilumbu (Field Card)
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The singers of this item had come north, down the Lualaba River and were over 400 miles from their home in Kongolo, near the junction of the Lualaba with its tributary which drains the overflow flood waters from Lake Tanganyika. This simple repetitive song is similar to many others associated with divination -- th...
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Bilumbu (Track)
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The singers of this item had come north, down the Lualaba River and were over 400 miles from their home in Kongolo, near the junction of the Lualaba with its tributary which drains the overflow flood waters from Lake Tanganyika. This simple repetitive song is similar to many others associated with divination -- th...
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Bolo neno kari koongo (Track)
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Bolo achieved an unenviable reputation for having neither shield nor ostrich feathers, and for being an uninvited guest at drinking parties. The playing of drums by these Nilotic people is usually far simpler in rhythm than that of the Bantu.
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Bugenda kilo (Field Card)
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You are too fond of visiting villages in search of women. One day you will meet an angry man who will hit you.'
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Bugenda kilo (Track)
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You are too fond of visiting villages in search of women. One day you will meet an angry man who will hit you.'
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Chakunaka (Field Card)
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This story, told by an old woman, of the handsome young man and his jealous mother is almost identical with a similar story I found amongst the Karange of S. Rhodesia in 1932.
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