Individual names given to talking-gongs in the Yalemba area of Belgian Congo
- Title
- Individual names given to talking-gongs in the Yalemba area of Belgian Congo
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Talking drum
- Ethnomusicology
- Percussion instruments
- Drum
- Drum language
- Musical instruments
- Talking-gongs
- Idiophones
- Belgian Congo
- African Music
- Drum (Instrument)
- Talking Drum (Instrument)
- Abstract
- The practice of giving individual names to talking-gongs has been reported for some central African tribes but is not known among all peoples using this musical instrument. It has been found to be common in the Yalemba area of Belgian Congo (Basoko territory, Oriental province) among groups using the gong-language known as (h?) So based on the spoken language of the (ba)So tribe. The following article is an attempt to put on record some of these instrumental names while at the same time recording measurements of gongs made in the field.
- Description
- pages: 10-17
- Created Date
- November 30, 1956
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
-
Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Author
-
Carrington, John F.
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- Imperial College London
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0049
- Identifier
-
308
Value Annotations
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 75051
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