Cassette of Bayaka Music and Sounds #307, Type of Music: Enyomo, Musical games, Elanda,Boyobi, children’s Limboku

Cassette of Bayaka Music and Sounds #307, Type of Music: Enyomo, Musical games, Elanda,Boyobi, children’s Limboku

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World Music
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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) – 'Enyomo '96/ Musical games '86, '87, '92, '94. 66'

Louis Sarno's notes on liner card (ms ink) – 'Tracks 1-3: from Enyomo late night 22 August 1996 at Batari (one of Yandoumbé's 3 small satellite vilages). This Enyomo was performed because of the death a day earlier of a baby girl. I recorded fragments only. Total time: 19 1/2m. Track times: 1) 2m. 2) 11 1/2m. 3) 6m, end Enyomo 22 Aug. '96 Batari. MUSICAL GAMES. Tracks 4-5: musical games evening 29 Jan. 1986 at Kenyé. Young teenagers mostly took part. After half an hour they switched to dancing elanda (See DAT 67). Total time: 21 1/2m. Track times: 4) 15 1/2m. 5) 6m, end games 29 Jan. '86 at Kenyé. Track 6: musical games late afternoon 27 Feb. 1987 at Kenyé. Young teenagers again. After ten minutes they switched to elanda (See DAT 67). Track time: 8m. Tracks 7-12: musical games night 11 Feb. 1992 at Yandoumbé. Young teenagers (mostly girls) and older children. Total time: 38 1/2m. Track times: 7) 8 1/2m. 8) 4m. 9) 7 1/2m. 10) 4m. 11) 7 1/2m. 12) 7m, end games 11 Feb. '92 Yandoumbé. Tracks 13-18: evening camp scenes 26 June 1994 at Boungingi forest camp. Children playing games (tracks 13 & 14). Track 14 is a villager (i.e. Bantu) game brought down from the small savanna 50 km to the north (a Catholic mission for Bayaka called Monasao) by a young teenage girl who moved with her family to Yandoumbé. Tracks 15-18 are boyobi songs and really belong on DAT 44, since they lead into the boyobi (tracks 1-4 on DAT 44). Total time: 16 1/2m. Track times: 13) 3 1/2m. 14) 4m. 15) 2 1/2m. 16) 1m. 17) 2 1/2m. 18) 3m, end camp scenes w/ children 26 June '94 Boungingi. Track 19: another evening camp scene, this one on 24 Oct. 1992 at Likimbi forest camp. The children (mostly girls) performing their own Limboku. Once again, their efforts were followed that night by a grand boyobi (See DAT 32). Track time: 7 minutes. Tracks 20-23: Forest scenes, noon and after 12 July 1994 in primary forest at Boungingi. Total time: 11m. Track times: 20) 1 1/2m. 21) 2 1/2m. 22) 3 1/2m. 23) 3 1/2m. END DAT 66'

[Nb. Please also see 1997.21.2.398 (DAT 67), and 1997.21.2.285 (DAT 44) - Noel Lobley 21/07/2010]

Content Type
Field recording (raw)
Duration
40 mins
Anthropologist / Ethnographer
Louis Sarno, 1954-2017
Format
Audio
Sub Genre
Game Song, African, Ceremonial piece, Song
Date Recorded
1996
Series Number
Recordings
Subject
World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology

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