Mali

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Mali
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Mande Tribal/Linguistic Groups
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The Kora (Cora)
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Kora
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Playing the Kora
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Musicians in Mande Culture

• Caste system
• Three levels- Nobles/ Rulers- Nyamalo
  (craftsmen who work w/ objects)- Sula
  (ordinary people)
• Musicians Nyamalo (why?)
• Jalli/Jelli or Griot (French term)

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Kora (Cora) on YouTube

• YouTube - Jali The Kora
• YouTube - Kora music from West African Griot
• YouTube - Djele Lankandia - Kora Music
• YouTube - Griot Lamin Saho - Peace, love and
  unity between the people.
• YouTube - Kora music in the Gambia
• YouTube - Kora meets Balafon - Two Mamadou
  Diabates
• YouTube - Kora - Idrissa Cissoko

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Africa(political)
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Ewe Tribal areas
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Drums from Eastern Ghana
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Gangkogui (timeline)
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Axatse (timeline)
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Atsimevu(leader)
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Sogo, Kidi, Kaganu(left to right)
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Anlo-Ewe Drum Ensemble

• Gangokui (clapperless double bell) -TIMELINE
• Axatse (rattle external beads on fishnet) -
  TIME
• Atsimevu (largest drum, often on stand) - LEAD
• Kaganu (medium small, semi-independent)
• Sogo (small, 2-1/2 ft closed, hand, follower)
• Kidi (small, 2 ft closed, sticks, follower)
• See dancedrummer.com for examples
• Also see Virtual Instrument Museum (Region
  Africa)for individual instruments

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African Drumming on YouTube

• YouTube - Akrowa Dance Ensemble, Drumming in
  Kokrobite Ghana
• YouTube - traditional Ewe drumming and singing
• YouTube - Ayan Bisi Adeleke - Master talking
  drummer - drum talks
• YouTube - Yoruba Bata Ensemble Drums for Orisa,
  volume 1

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Popular Music in Africa(mainly Nigeria)
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Yaw Ofori Singing Band(recorded by Union Trading
Company UTC in 1940s?)
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Ramblers Dance Band(Highlife, c. 1950s?)
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E.T. Mensah and his Tempos Band(Ghana, c. 1955)
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Rhythm Aces performing at Weekend in
Havana(Club in James Town, Ghana, c. 1950-60)
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King Sunny Adé (b. 1946)Minister of Enjoyment
Golden Mercury of Africa
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King Sunny and his African Beats
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Jújú

• Yoruba-based music (tribe of SW Nigeria)
• Emerges in 1930s w/ trios - a leader who sang
  and played the banjo- a shekere bottle-gourd
  rattle player- a jùjú (tambourine) drummer
• 1948 addition of Yoruba talking drum
• King Sunnys Band (large lineup, up to 16)5-8
  guitars, 2 Talking drums, synthesizer(s), pedal
  steel guitar, miscellaneous percussion, 4 or more
  backup singers
• Jújú Music (Island Records, 1982) -200,000
  copies sold replacement for Bob Marley

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Highlife, JuJu, Afrobeat(Nigerian Pop)

• YouTube - Taxi Driver - A Highlife Classic
• YouTube - Classic Highlife
• YouTube - West African Highlife Band Nigerian
  Brothers drum chants
• YouTube - JUJU MUSIC - Performance Documentary
  Trailer
• YouTube - Dele Abiodun- Juju music -Nigeria
  Yoruba
• YouTube - Juju Tempo Tola Osumare
• YouTube - I.K. Dairo - Salome (Audio)
• YouTube - I.K. Dairo MBE
• YouTube - King Sunny Ade (KSA_at_60)
• YouTube - KING SUNNY ADE - JA FUNMI
• YouTube - King Sunny Ade - Sunny Ti de Ariya
  (Audio)
• YouTube - king sunny ade (AUDIO)

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Fela Kuti (1938-1997)
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Felas life

• Middle-Class Nigerian family- Mother Feminist
  Anti-colonialist- Father Minister Teacher
  (Union Pres.)
• London (1958) to study medicine, then music
• Koola Lobitos (mixes jazz, funk, highlife)
• Nigeria (1963-69) radio producer
• United States (1969) influenced by Black Power
  movement
• Bands Nigeria 70, Africa 70

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Fela Kuti at Kalakuta Republic

• Founded 1970
• Commune, recording studio, home for band
• Declares independence from Nigeria
• 1974 Raid Expensive Sh
• 1977 Attack (Zombie) compound destroyed, Fela
  beaten, Mother killed

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Felas life

• 1978 marries 27 women (dancers in band)
• Accra concert in Ghana (riots after Zombie)
• 1979 runs for president of Nigeria (Movement
  of the People Party)
• Band Egypt 80
• 1980s tours (US, Europe, etc.)
• 1984 jailed (currency smuggling)
• 1997 dies of complications of AIDS

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Felas Music

• Afro Beat (his term) jazz, funk, highlife
• Large horn line, African percussion, etc.
• Long (10-minute songs) static dance grooves-
  ostinato patterns- call response-
  improvisation
• Political lyrics (pan-Africanism)
• Sings in Pidgin English (why?)

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Fela on YouTube

• YouTube - Lady/Water No Get Enemy by. Fela Kuti
• YouTube - Zombie - The Fela Kuti Tribute Concert
  2003 (performed by Felas son)
• YouTube - Fela Kuti "Gentleman
• Compare James Brown (Hardest Working Man in Show
  Business) (1970s Funk)- YouTube - James
  Brown - Sex Machine (1976)- YouTube - james
  brown,say it loud i'm black and i'm proud