Announcing a death (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR129 , 1 min
Details
- Field of Interest
- Anthropology
- Copyright Message
- Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
- Description
- Away from the Congo River itself, it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sending of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have arisen from messages in the past but the skill of "talking" on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance of the "Tamatsaro" signal was not explained.
- Content Type
- Field recording (raw)
- Duration
- 1 min
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- African Drumming
- Date Recorded
- 1952
- Series Number
- TR129
- Subject
- Anthropology, World Music, Social Sciences, Music & Performing Arts, Cultural anthropology, Africa