Cassette of Bayaka Music and Sounds #306, Type of Music: Gano makusé, Enyomo
Details
- Field of Interest
- World Music
- Copyright Message
- Material sourced from the Louis Sarno Archive, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Copyright © Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
- Description
Louis Sarno's notes on liner card (ms ink) – 'GANO '94/ MAKUSE '94, '96/ ENYOMO '96 etc. 65'
Louis Sarno's notes on liner card (ms ink) – 'Tracks 1-6: from Gano night 26 Sept. 1994 at Kongana forest camp. Another session with Tabu as storyteller. A thunderstorm put an end to the sessions. Total time: 41m. Track times: 1) 3 1/2m. 2) 3 1/2m. 3) 11m. 4) 3m. 5) 7 1/2m. 6) 12 1/2m, end gano 26 Sept. '94 Kongana. Makuse. Makusé is performed at the start of a forest sojourn, to bring food to the camp, to ensure that the forest sojourn will be fruitful. It begins at the crack of dawn. A fire is lit at the base of a big tree. Food procuring items such as carrying baskets and spears are leaned up against the tree. The participants (men, women, and children) encircle the tree fanning the fire in unison with leafy branches. With their axes men strike the tree with loud thumps (symbolizing honey gathering). Once the sun is up the music ends with shouts of defiances and curses at all of the things of village (as opposed to forest) life. Track 7: Makusé, dawn 5 Feb. 1994 at Kongana. Time: 15 1/2m. Track 8: Makusé 5.a.m (pre-dawn) 8 May 1996 along middle Kenyé (transition camp on our way out for 3 months of net hunting). Time: 13m. Tracks 9-10: Men return from spearhunt with two red river hogs, evening 27 Feb. 1994 at Boungingi. Track times: 9) the hunters: 1 1/2m. 10) camp: 2 1/2m. Track 11: Spearhunters returning with gorilla, afternoon 10 July 1994 Boungingi. Women in camp rush to join the triumphantly singing hunters as the return from the forest with lots of meat. One man runs out to meet them carrying and pounding the camp's drum. Time: 5 minutes. Tracks 12-15: from Enyomo dance, afternoon 23rd June 1996 at Likimbi hunting camp. Total time: 40 1/2m. Track times: 12) 12 1/2m. 13) 6 1/2m. 14) 9 1/2m. 15) 12m, end Enyomo 23 June '96 Likimbi. Track 16: Forest scene: 12:30 p.m. 16 June 1994 in primary forest at Likimbi. Track time: 7 1/2m. END DAT 65'
- Content Type
- Field recording (raw)
- Duration
- 40 mins
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Louis Sarno, 1954-2017
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- Song
- Date Recorded
- 1996
- Series Number
- Recordings
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology