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Benin : Bariba and Somba music = musique bariba et somba.

Format Electronic, Audio (Streaming), and Musical Sound Recording
Publication Info Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Audivis-UNESCO, 1994.
Description1 online resource (44 minutes).
Supplemental Content https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?GLMU;2458323
Subject(s)
Series Musiques et musiciens du monde
Musiques et musiciens du monde. ^A364548
Contents Bariba music. Praise song for hunters (3:52) -- Music played when setting out for a hunt (2:26) -- Music in praise of Oru Suru (5:53) -- Sambani, music for dancing (2:40) -- Taru, music for dancing (1:47) -- "A poor man has no country" (5:09) -- Somba music. Dinaba, myth of the origins (6:04) -- Song for grinding millet (5:12) -- Musotie, harvest dance (3:08) -- Funeral lament (2:06) -- Song to carry the corpse (2:05) -- Song for grinding karite nuts (2:26).
General noteIncludes PDF of liner notes in English with French translation.
General noteStreaming audio files.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed March 03, 2016).
Credits Field recordings made by Simha Arom.
Performer Various performers.
LanguageVocal works sung in Somba and Bariba.
Issued in other formOriginal cat. no.: UNES08057
Genre/formFolk music.
Genre/formField recordings.

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