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Material sourced from the Louis Sarno Archive, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Copyright © Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.

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Louis Sarno's notes on liner card (ms ink) – 'YEYI '93/ Lullabies. 57'

Louis Sarno's notes on liner card (ms ink) – 'Tracks 1-4: from Yeyi that began in the wee hours of 7 April '93 and continued into the morning. During the night I recorded from a distance, but in the morning they approached me for the final recordings. Some of the same participants as the two Yeyi from 1991 (Dat 56), although by now one of the women from those occasions - Poli - had since passed away. Total time: 29m. Track times: 1) 8m. 2) 7m. 3) 13m. 4) 1m, end Yeyi 7 April '93 Yandoumbé. Tracks 5-17: From an evening of song by a very small group (4 women, 1 girl, 1 or 2 boys, occasionally 1 or 2 men), 20 Nov. 1993 at Boungingi spear hunting camp. This session, music sung out of happiness because of a successful spear hunt that day, mixed boyobi and yeyi style songs. Tracks 1-10 are boyobi style, the rest are yeyi. Total time: 59 1/2m. Track times: 5) 7 1/2m. 6) 9 1/2m. 7) 3 1/2m. 8) 4 1/2m. 9) 5m. 10) 4m. 11) 3m. 12) 6 1/2m. 13) 3 1/2m. 14) 1 1/2m. 15) 7m. 16) 2m. 17) 1 1/2m, end boyobi/ yeyi 20 Nov. '93 at Boungingi. Tracks 18-21: from Yeyi night 28 April 1993 at Yandoumbé. I only recorded a fragment of this Yeyi. Many of the same participants as the Yeyi in tracks 1-4. Total time: 12 1/2m. Track times: 18) 3m. 19) 4 1/2m. 20) 3m. 21) 2m, end Yeyi 28 April '93 Yandoumbé. Lullabies: I have only recorded lullabies a few times and rarely successfully. Most seem to have been recorded in 1987, and most are by my neighbour then, Matangu, wife of Balonyona. Track 22: Lullaby sung by Matangu to baby daughter, late Feb. 1987, Kenyé. 4m. Track 23: Lullaby sung by Matangu to baby daughter with help from her husband Balonyona, mid-March '87 Kenyé, 3 1/2m. Track 24: Lullaby by Matangu, late March 1987, Kenyé, 3 1/2m. Track 25: Lullaby by Matangu to baby daughter, with help from young son and a young girl, end March 1987, Kenyé, 2m. Track 26: Lullaby sung by two 10-year-old girls (Metimbo and Mongo) to baby niece, early April 1989, Mombongo (forest camp), 2m. Track 27: Forest scene, with distant grey wood pigeon, mid afternoon, 3 May 1996. END DAT 57'

Content Type

Field recording (raw)

Duration

40 mins

Anthropologist / Ethnographer

Louis Sarno, 1954-2017

Format

Audio

Sub Genre

Song, Ceremonial piece

Date Recorded

1996

Series Number

Recordings

Subject

World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology